Financial Opportunists
{{short description|1934 film}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Financial Opportunists
| image =File:Financial Opportunists.jpg
| caption =
| director = Fritz Kampers
| producer = Felix Pfitzner
| writer = Curt J. Braun
Bobby E. Lüthge
| narrator =
| starring = Weiss Ferdl
Sabine Peters
Hans Adalbert Schlettow
| music = Marc Roland
| cinematography = Herbert Körner
| editing = Oswald Hafenrichter
| studio = Cicero Film
| distributor = Neue Deutsch Lichtspiel-Syndikat Verleih
| released = {{Film date|1934|01|26|df=yes}}
| runtime = 84 minutes
| country = Germany
| language = German
| budget =
| gross =
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Financial Opportunists (German: Konjunkturritter) is a 1934 German comedy film directed by Fritz Kampers and starring Weiss Ferdl, Sabine Peters and Hans Adalbert Schlettow.Niven p.283 The film's sets were designed by the art directors Gustav A. Knauer and Alexander Mügge. The title was a well-known phrase to attack Jews, and was one of the first openly anti-Semitic films produced under the Nazi regime.Waldman p.75
Cast
- Weiss Ferdl as Ferdinand Mühlbauer
- Sabine Peters as Gretl, seine Tochter
- Hans Adalbert Schlettow as Dr. Lehmann, Rechtsanwalt
- Otto Wallburg as Untermeier, Grundstücksspekulant
- Kurt Vespermann as Dr. Günther, Rechtsanwalt
- Theo Lingen as Glaser, Grundstücksspekulant
- Walter Steinbeck as Direktor Messerschmidt
- Eugen Rex as Büngermann
- Käthe Haack as Frau Hornstedt
- Hans Leibelt as Klagemann, beider Hauptgläubiger
- Charly Berger as Ober
References
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Bibliography
- Niven, Bill. Hitler and Film: The Führer's Hidden Passion. Yale University Press, 2018.
- Waldman, Harry. Nazi Films in America, 1933–1942. McFarland, 2008.
External links
- {{IMDb title|0168030}}
Category:Films of Nazi Germany
Category:1930s German-language films
Category:Films directed by Fritz Kampers
Category:German black-and-white films
Category:Films set in the 1920s
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