The Company's in Love

1932 film

The Company's in Love
Lien Deyers and Gustav Fröhlich at the swimming baths
GermanDie verliebte Firma
Directed byMax Ophüls
Written by
  • Bruno Granichstaedten
  • Ernst Marischka
  • Fritz Zeckendorf
Starring
CinematographyKarl Puth
Edited byElse Baum
Music byBruno Granichstaedten
Production
company
Deutsches Lichtspiel-Syndikat
Distributed byDeutsches Lichtspiel-Syndikat
Release date
  • 22 February 1932 (1932-02-22)
Running time
73 minutes
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman

The Company's in Love (German: Die verliebte Firma) is a 1932 German comedy film directed by Max Ophüls and starring Gustav Fröhlich, Anny Ahlers and Lien Deyers.[1]

It was shot at the Staaken Studios in Berlin and on location in Switzerland. The film's sets were designed by Robert Neppach and Erwin Scharf.

Plot

When a temperamental film star storms off the set, a production crew shooting in the Alps decide to recruit a local post office employee to replace her. Complications ensue once they return to Berlin as they have all fallen in love with her.

Cast

  • Gustav Fröhlich as Werner Loring jr. - deputy. Director of Ideal Tonfilm
  • Anny Ahlers as Peggy Barling - Film star
  • Lien Deyers as Gretl Krummbichler - Post office employee
  • Ernö Verebes as Heinrich Pulver - Assistant Director
  • José Wedorn as Leo Lamberti - Chamber singer
  • Leonard Steckel as Harry Bing - Director
  • Hubert von Meyerinck as Fritz Willner - Screenwriter
  • Fritz Steiner as Toni Bauer - Composer
  • Hermann Krehan as Karl Martini - Cinematographer
  • Werner Finck as Franz Klingemüller - Swiss Post Board of Management

References

  1. ^ Fisher, Jaimey (2013). Generic Histories of German Cinema: Genre and Its Deviations. Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual. Boydell & Brewer. p. 93. ISBN 978-1571135704. JSTOR 10.7722/j.ctt31nhth.

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