''The Girl with the Five Zeros'' (German: ''Das Mädchen mit den fünf Nullen'') is a 1927 German silent

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directed by

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.Bock & Bergfelder p.41 It was shot at the Grunewald Studios in

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. The film's sets were designed by Heinrich Richter. The plot concerns a winning lottery ticket.

Cast

* as Arnold Lebbecke * as Lola Lutz * Paul Bildt as Günther Wahnheim *

Veit Harlan Veit Harlan (22 September 1899 – 13 April 1964) was a German film director and actor. Harlan reached the high point of his career as a director in the Nazi era; most notably his antisemitic film '' Jud Süß'' (1940) makes him controversial. W ...

as Ernst Waldt, Maler * Elsa Wagner as Lebbeckes Frau * Adele Sandrock as Wahnheims Mutter *

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* Jack Trevor as Hochstapler * Arthur Kraußneck * Eberhard Leithoff as Bräutigam * * Elza Temary as Wahnheims Tochter *

Bruno Ziener Bruno Ziener (11 June 1870 – 9 February 1941) was a German stage and film actor and film director, director. He appeared in over 100 films between 1913 and 1941. He also directed 28 silent films such as ''The Flight into Death'' (1921).Grange p ...

as Müller, Lotteriekollekteur

References

Bibliography

* Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009.

External links

* 1927 films Films of the Weimar Republic German silent feature films Films directed by Curtis Bernhardt 1927 comedy films German black-and-white films Silent German comedy films 1920s German films 1920s German-language films German-language comedy films {{1920s-Germany-silent-comedy-film-stub