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Madness Rules
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Wikipedia article
'Madness Rules' (German: 'Matto regiert') is a 1947 Swiss crime film directed by Leopold Lindtberg and starring Heinrich Gretler, Heinz Woester and Elisabeth Mller.Fritsche p.31 It is based on the 1936 novel of the same name by Friedrich Glauser. Lead actor Gretler reprised his role of the policeman Jakob Studer from the 1939 film 'Constable Studer', also adapted from a Glauser novel.
Production
The film was shot between December 1946 and March 1947 at the Bellerive and Rosenhof Studios in Zurich with some location shooting around Knigsfelden. The film cost around 395,000 Swiss Francs.
Synopsis
The police investigate the murder of the head of a mental hospital who had recently been in dispute with his colleague over their treatment of a young patient.
Cast
* Heinrich Gretler as Constable Jakob Studer
* Heinz Woester as Doctor Ernst Laduner
* Elisabeth Mller Sister Irma Wasem
* Friedrich Braun as Patient
* Otto Brefin
* Gottlieb Bchi
* Zarli Carigiet as Patient
* Mathilde Danegger as Dr. med Sphler
* Fritz Delius as Patient
* Hugo Dblin as Patient
* Enzo Ertini as Patient
* Hans Gaugler as Leibundgut
* Emil Gerber as Pfleger Jutzeler
* Walburga Gmr as Patientin
* Emil Gyr as Patient
* Max Haufler as Pfleger Weyrauch
* Emil Hegetschweiler as Pfleger Gilgen
* Hans Kaes as Portier Dreyer
* Jrn Kbler as Patient
* Olaf Kbler as Herbert Kaplaun
* Max Werner Lenz as Patient
* Adolf Manz as Georg Caplaun
* Viktor May as Patient
* Walter Morath as Dr. med. Neuveville
* Irene Naef as Margrit Laduner
* Arno Rita as Patient
* Armin Schweizer as Patient
* Johannes Steiner as Dr. med Ulrich Borstli
* Sigfrit Steiner as Kommissar
* Schaggi Streuli as Nachtwchter
References
Bibliography
* Fritsche, Maria. 'Homemade Men in Postwar Austrian Cinema: Nationhood, Genre and Masculinity'. Berghahn Books, 2013.
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