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'The Marriage Swindler' is a 1938 German drama film directed by Herbert Selpin and starring Eduard von Winterstein, Viktoria von Ballasko and Kurt Waitzmann. It is sometimes known by the alternative title 'Die rote Mtze' ('The Red Cap').Hull p. 122 A confidence trickster is released from prison and travels to a village where he blackmails and tricks women out of their savings, before eventually being caught.Hull p. 123

The film's sets were designed by the art directors Max Knaake and Karl Vollbrecht.

Cast



* Eduard von Winterstein as Franz Buschko

* Viktoria von Ballasko as Marianne, seine Tochter

* Kurt Waitzmann as Mathias Schrder

* Harald Paulsen as Hselich / Ullmann

* Hilde Krber as Melitta Dolechal

* Fita Benkhoff as Frau Lindemann

* Elisabeth Flickenschildt as Frau Buschko

* Alfred Maack as Paaschen, Bahnhofswirt

* Heinrich Kalnberg as Vater Zierlein

* Friedrich Ettel as Vorsteher Scharrelmann

* Ernst Behmer as Pauluschkat

* Gerhard Bienert as Assistant Obermeier

* Hans Hemes as 1. Beamter

* Helmut Heyne as Assistant Fiedler

* Eva Klein-Donath as Frau Becker

* Gerda Kuffner as Frau Niemeyer

* Waldemar Potier as Kellnerjunge Karl

* Arthur Reinhardt as 2. Beamter

Production



The film was directed by Selpin for the small studio A.B.C.-Film, and distributed by the major company Tobis Film. It is based on a novel by Gertrude Von Brockdorff. Its neorealism and pessimistic tone were a sharp change from Selpin's recent work which had been dominated by musicals, comedies and society dramas and was extremely rare in the Nazi era when German cinema strove to be light and entertaining.Hull p. 122123 The film had trouble with the censors, and its release was delayed. It has been described as "One of the finest German sound films ever made".Bergfelder & Street p. 122

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