''The Green Emperor'' () is a 1939 German

crime film Crime film is a film belonging to the crime fiction genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and fiction. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine with many other genres, such as Drama (film and television), dr ...

directed by Paul Mundorf and starring Gustav Diessl,

Carola Höhn Carola Höhn (30 January 1910 – 8 November 2005) was a German actress. Selected filmography Film * '' The Weekend Bride'' (1928) * '' Don Juan in a Girls' School'' (1928) * '' From a Bachelor's Diary'' (1929) * '' Youthful Indiscretion'' (1929 ...

and

René Deltgen Renatus Heinrich Deltgen (30 April 1909 in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg – 29 January 1979 in Cologne, West Germany) was a Luxembourgish stage and film actor An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who port ...

. It was inspired by the real-life case of a Belgian

financier An investor is a person who allocates financial capital with the expectation of a future return (profit) or to gain an advantage (interest). Through this allocated capital the investor usually purchases some species of property. Types of in ...

who had gone missing during a flight across the

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.Waldman p. 59 The film's sets were designed by the

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Erich Kettelhut Erich Karl Heinrich Kettelhut (1 November 1893 – 13 March 1979) was a German production designer, art director and set decorator. Kettelhut is considered one of the most important artists in the history of early German cinema, mainly for his s ...

Location shooting Location shooting is the shooting of a film or television production in a real-world setting rather than a sound stage or backlot. The location may be interior or exterior. When filmmaking professionals refer to shooting "on location", they are ...

took place in the countryside outside

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during 1938. It premiered in

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in February 1939.

Synopsis

A shady British businessmen frames his

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for his staged murder. After being released from prison, the pilot attempts to track down his former employer who is still alive.

Cast

* Gustav Diessl as Henry Miller / Hendrik Mylius *

as Joana Martinez *

as Jan Karsten * Ellen Bang as Eva Latour *

Aribert Wäscher Aribert Wäscher (1 December 1895 – 14 December 1961) was a German film actor. Selected filmography * '' The Black Tulip Festival'' (1920) * '' The Graveyard of the Living'' (1921) * '' Slums of Berlin'' (1925) * '' The Hanseatics'' (1925) * ' ...

as Bankier Vandermer *

Hilde Hildebrand Emma Minna Hilde Hildebrand (10 September 1897 – 12 May 1976) was a German actress born in Hanover, Germany on 10 September 1897. She died at the age of 78 in Grunewald, Berlin, on 27 May 1976. Selected filmography * ''Die Scheidungsehe'' ...

as Nora *

Paul Westermeier Paul Westermeier (9 July 1892 – 17 October 1972) was a German film actor. Selected filmography * '' Wedding in the Eccentric Club'' (1917) * '' Agnes Arnau and Her Three Suitors'' (1918) * '' About the Son'' (1921) * '' Memoirs of a Film Act ...

as Hoyens *

Alexander Engel Alexander Engel, birth name: Kurt Engel (4 June 1902 – 25 July 1968) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 70 films between 1932 and 1968. He was born in Berlin, Germany and died in Saarbrücken, West Germany. He chose the stag ...

as Sekretär Favard *

Albert Hörrmann Albert may refer to: Companies * Albert Computers, Inc., a computer manufacturer in the 1980s * Albert Czech Republic, a supermarket chain in the Czech Republic * Albert Heijn, a supermarket chain in the Netherlands * Albert Market, a street mar ...

as Marcel Carraux *

Hans Leibelt Hans Leibelt (11 March 1885 in Leipzig, German Empire – 3 December 1974 in Munich, West Germany) was a German film actor. Selected filmography * ''Heimliche Sünder'' (1926) * ''The False Prince (1927 film), The False Prince'' (1927) * ' ...

as Picard * Hans Halder as Bankier Jaquine *

Otto Matthies Otto is a masculine German given name and a surname. It originates as an Old High German short form (variants ''Audo'', '' Odo'', '' Udo'') of Germanic names beginning in ''aud-'', an element meaning "wealth, prosperity". The name is recorded fro ...

as Agent van't Hoff *

Eduard von Winterstein Eduard Clemens Franz Anna Freiherr von Wangenheim (1 August 1871 – 22 July 1961), known as Eduard von Winterstein, was an Austrian-German film actor who appeared in over one hundred fifty German films during the silent and sound eras. He was ...

as Gerichtsvorsitzender im 2. Prozeß *

Edwin Jürgensen Edwin Max Eduard Jürgensen (24 May 1898 – 1 April 1947) was a German actor. He appeared in more than forty films from 1930 to 1944. Filmography References External links * 1898 births 1947 deaths German male film actors Male ac ...

as Prosecutor in the first trial *

Franz Schafheitlin Franz Schafheitlin (9 August 1895 – 6 February 1980) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 160 films between 1927 and 1974. He was born in Charlottenburg, Berlin, Germany and died in Pullach, West Germany. Selected filmograph ...

as Prosecutor in the second trial *

Erwin Biegel Erwin Friedrich Richard Biegel (25 March 1896 – 24 May 1954) was a German stage and film actor who appeared in over eighty feature films in a variety of supporting roles. Selected filmography * ''The Young Count'' (1935) * '' His Late Excell ...

as Diener Pieter auf der Fazenda * Ilse Trautschold as Hoysens Sekretärin *

Ingolf Kuntze Ingolf Kuntze (1890–1952) was a German stage and film actor.Giesen p.217 He was active as a character actor, appearing in supporting roles in a number of films during the Nazi era. Selected filmography * ''A Woman Branded'' (1931) * '' And Who ...

as Gerichtsvorsitzender im 1. Prozeß *

Siegfried Schürenberg Siegfried Schürenberg (12 January 1900 – 31 August 1993) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 80 films between 1933 and 1974. He was born in Detmold, Germany and died in Berlin, Germany in 1993, at age 93. Although he never p ...

as Defense lawyer *

Bruno Hübner Bruno Hübner (1899–1983) was an Austrian film and television actor known for his work in Germany.Goble p.412 He was born in Reichenberg then in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which later became part of Czechoslovakia. Selected filmography * ''Pu ...

as Geschworener *

Aribert Grimmer Aribert () is a Germanic given name, from ''hari'' ("host") and '' beraht'' ("bright"). Notable people with the given name include: * Aribert (archbishop of Milan) (between 970 and 980–1045), archbishop of Milan * Prince Aribert of Anhalt (1866� ...

as Geschworener * Walther Süssenguth as Geschworener *

Eric Helgar Eric Helgar (8 February 1910 – 14 June 1992) was a German singer and film actor.Goble p.389 He was married to the actress Lola Müthel. Selected filmography * ''What Women Dream'' (1933) * '' The Champion of Pontresina'' (1934) * '' Orders Ar ...

as Singender Arbeiter auf der Fazenda *

Erich Fiedler Erich Fiedler (15 March 1901 – 19 May 1981) was a German film actor. He was the German dubbing voice of Robert Morley. Selected filmography * '' The Escape to Nice'' (1932) * '' Overnight Sensation'' (1932) * '' Marion, That's Not Nice'' (193 ...

as Reporter

References

Bibliography

External links

* 1939 films 1939 crime films German crime films Films of Nazi Germany 1930s German-language films Films set in South America Films set in London UFA GmbH films German black-and-white films 1930s German films {{1930s-Germany-film-stub