''The Sinful Border'' () is a 1951 West German

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directed by Robert A. Stemmle and starring Dieter Borsche, Inge Egger and

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. Jan Hendriks won the

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as Best Newcomer. It focuses on the smuggling of

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, at the time an expensive luxury, into Germany.Baer p.106 It is also known by the alternative title of ''Illegal Border''. It was shot at the Spandau Studios in

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and on location in the

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. The film's sets were designed by the

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s Mathias Matthies and Ellen Schmidt.

Cast

* Dieter Borsche as Hans Fischer * Inge Egger as Marianne Mertens *

as Zollkommissar Dietrich * Jan Hendriks as Jan Krapp * Julia Fjorsen as Cilly *

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as Mutter Mertens * Alice Treff as Mutter Walters * Ilse Furstenberg * Eva Bubat * Maria Secher * Hendrikje Simonis * Ernst Schroder as Hugo Mielke * Adolf Dell as Vater Mertens * Adalbert Koffler * Hans Dieter Zeidler * Arthur Mainzer * Hans Halden *

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* Cornelia Froboess as Bertha * Wolfgang Jansen as Heinz Mertens

References

Bibliography

* Baer, Hester. ''Dismantling the Dream Factory: Gender, German Cinema, and the Postwar Quest for a New Film Language''. Berghahn Books, 2012.

External links

* 1951 films 1951 crime films German crime films West German films 1950s German-language films Films directed by Robert A. Stemmle Films about social realism German black-and-white films Films shot at Spandau Studios 1950s German films Films scored by Herbert Trantow {{1950s-Germany-film-stub