Punks Arrives from America
{{short description|1935 film}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Punks Arrives from America
| image =File:Punks Arrives from America.jpg
| caption =
| director = Karl Heinz Martin
| producer = Robert Neppach
Alfred Zeisler
| based_on = Punks Arrives from America by Ludwig von Wohl
| writer = Walter Jerven
| narrator =
| starring = Attila Hörbiger
Lien Deyers
Ralph Arthur Roberts
Sybille Schmitz
| music = Werner Bochmann
| cinematography = Carl Drews
| editing = Oswald Hafenrichter
| studio = UFA
| distributor = UFA
| released ={{Film date|1935|01|25|df=yes}}
| runtime = 90 minutes
| country = Germany
| language = German
| budget =
| gross =
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Punks Arrives from America (German: Punks kommt aus Amerika) is a 1935 German comedy film directed by Karl Heinz Martin and starring Attila Hörbiger, Lien Deyers, Ralph Arthur Roberts and Sybille Schmitz. Produced and distributed by UFA, it was made at the company's Babelsberg Studios in Potsdam.Klaus p.158 The film's sets were designed by the art director Otto Guelstorff. Location shooting took place around Hamburg. Along with Fresh Wind from Canada it was one of several seemingly innocuous comedies released that supported the Nazi Party's Heim ins Reich policy.Rentschler p.76
Synopsis
A German citizen who has been away in the United States, and has become americanised and acquired the nickname "Punks" returns home after some bad fortune. He manages to eventually overcome his family and former friends' bad opinion of him by rescuing his uncle's business from a robbery.
Cast
- Attila Hörbiger as Werner 'Punks' Holzhausen
- Lien Deyers as Marlis
- Ralph Arthur Roberts as Holenius, Antique dealer
- Sybille Schmitz as Britta Geistenberg
- Henry Lorenzen as von Schlieff
- Oskar Sima as Sigorski
- Erika Glässner as Yvonne de Carmagnac
- Georges Boulanger as a violinist
- Maria Meissner as Miss Oppmann
- Josef Sieber as Chauffeur
- Ekkehard Arendt as waiter at the golf club
- Ernst Behmer as lifeguard
- Hermann Braun as caddy at the golf club
- Louis Brody as barkeeper
- Adolf Fischer as truck driver
- Illo Gutschwager as boy at the gas station
- Bruno Hübner as bridge-player
- Karl Jüstel as Hotel guest
- Alfred Karen as Hotel guest
- Paquita Lorenz as saleswoman
- Edith Oß as maid
- Bert Schmidt-Moris as bell boy
- Aida St. Paul as bridge-player
- Egon Stief as truck driver
- Elisabeth von Ruets as bridge-player
- Erich Walter as Markoff
- Hugo Werner-Kahle as Van der Meuleen
References
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Bibliography
- Klaus, Ulrich J. Deutsche Tonfilme: Jahrgang 1934. Klaus-Archiv, 1988.
- Rentschler, Eric. The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife. Harvard University Press, 1996.
- Waldman, Harry. Nazi Films in America, 1933–1942. McFarland, 2008.
External links
- {{IMDb title|0026899}}
{{Karlheinz Martin}}
Category:Films of Nazi Germany
Category:1930s German-language films
Category:German black-and-white films
Category:Films directed by Karlheinz Martin
Category:Films shot in Hamburg
Category:Films shot at Babelsberg Studios
Category:Films based on German novels
Category:Films scored by Werner Bochmann
Category:Films based on works by Louis de Wohl
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