Lubitsch for KG. I wrote the subs. Enjoy.
other versions of Gerhart Hauptmann's play of 1893 ("A Thieves' Comedy"): 1928, 1949 and various TV productions
wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beaver_Coat
the play in German (get the djvu) http://www.archive.org/details/derbiber ... 00unkngoog
English translation http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/9971/pg9971.html
Hauptmann's introduction to the film http://www.aryan88.com/cleopatra/page.p ... 113&rub=27
I checked the original play in spots, the script changed it considerably, I also checked the translation which turned the slang Mother Wolff and her gang speak, into Cockney, but I didn't use it. The film is cinematography-wise uninteresting, but has a funny script and great acting and an astonishingly subversive message for 1937. (line 1276 about the civil servant whose time is up, seems to have been inserted to calm the censor
cast:
Heinrich George ... Amtsvorsteher Baron von Wehrhahn
Ida Wüst ... Auguste Wolff
Rotraut Richter ... Adelheid Wolff
Sabine Peters ... Leontine Wolff
Heinz von Cleve ... Konstrukteur Dr. Fleischer
Ernst Waldow ... Forstadjtant a.D. Motes
Ewald Wenck ... Julius Wolff
Eduard Wenck ... Rentier Krüger
Blandine Ebinger ... Frau Krüger
Albert Florath ... Schiffer Agust Wulkow
Renée Stobrawa ... Almine Wulkow
Fritz Odemar ... Seine Durchlaucht Fürst August Sigismund
Arthur Schröder ... Adjutant von Theerbrügge
Walter Bluhm ... Schreiber Glasenapp
Carl Heinz Charrell ... Amtsdiener Mitteldorf
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English subs
