The Sinful Border
1951 film
- Artur Brauner
- Gerda Corbett
- Marta Moyland
- Robert A. Stemmle
- Dieter Borsche
- Inge Egger
- Peter Mosbacher
- Jan Hendriks
Production
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CCC Films
Release date
- 8 November 1951 (1951-11-08)
Running time
The Sinful Border (German: Sündige Grenze) is a 1951 West German crime film directed by Robert A. Stemmle and starring Dieter Borsche, Inge Egger and Peter Mosbacher. Jan Hendriks won the German Film Award as Best Newcomer. It focuses on the smuggling of coffee, at the time an expensive luxury, into Germany.[1] It is also known by the alternative title of Illegal Border.
It was shot at the Spandau Studios in Berlin and on location in the Harz Mountains. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Mathias Matthies and Ellen Schmidt.
Cast
- Dieter Borsche as Hans Fischer
- Inge Egger as Marianne Mertens
- Peter Mosbacher as Zollkommissar Dietrich
- Jan Hendriks as Jan Krapp
- Julia Fjorsen as Cilly
- Gisela von Collande as Mutter Mertens
- Alice Treff as Mutter Walters
- Ilse Furstenberg
- Eva Bubat
- Maria Secher
- Hendrikje Simonis
- Ernst Schroder as Hugo Mielke
- Adolf Dell as Vater Mertens
- Adalbert Koffler
- Hans Dieter Zeidler
- Arthur Mainzer
- Hans Halden
- Erich Dunskus
- Cornelia Froboess as Bertha
- Wolfgang Jansen as Heinz Mertens
References
- ^ Baer p.106
Bibliography
- Baer, Hester. Dismantling the Dream Factory: Gender, German Cinema, and the Postwar Quest for a New Film Language. Berghahn Books, 2012.
External links
- The Sinful Border at IMDb
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Films directed by Robert A. Stemmle
- Charley's Aunt (1934)
- Heinz in the Moon (1934)
- Such a Rascal (1934)
- The Abduction of the Sabine Women (1936)
- Dangerous Crossing (1937)
- Daphne and the Diplomat (1937)
- By a Silken Thread (1938)
- The Mystery of Betty Bonn (1938)
- The Big Game (1942)
- The Millionaire (1947)
- The Berliner (1948)
- Abbiamo vinto! (1951)
- The Sinful Border (1951)
- Homesick for You (1952)
- Toxi (1952)
- Southern Nights (1953)
- Emil and the Detectives (1954)
- The Perfect Couple (1954)
- A Heart Full of Music (1955)
- You Can No Longer Remain Silent (1955)
- Die unvollkommene Ehe (1959)
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