What Men Know
{{Short description|1933 film}}
{{Infobox film
| name = What Men Know
| image = File:What Men Know.jpg
| caption =
| director = Gerhard Lamprecht
| producer = Bruno Duday
Eduard Kubat
| based_on =
| writer = Hanns H. Fischer
Hertha von Gebhardt
| narrator =
| starring = Hans Brausewetter
Erwin Kalser
Toni van Eyck
| music = Eduard Künneke
| cinematography = Karl Hasselmann
| editing = Milo Harbich
| studio = UFA
| distributor = UFA
| released = {{Film date|1933|01|11|df=yes}}
| runtime = 92 minutes
| country = Germany
| language = German
| budget =
| gross =
}}
What Men Know (German: Was wissen denn Männer) is a 1933 German drama film directed by Gerhard Lamprecht and starring Hans Brausewetter, Erwin Kalser and Toni van Eyck.Rentschler p.281Kreimeier p.218 It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art director Werner Schlichting. It was remade as the Swedish film What Do Men Know? the same year.
Synopsis
A young woman from the country has a relationship with a travelling salesman who then abandons her. When she falls pregnant from the affair it causes a local scandal.
Cast
- Hans Brausewetter as Karl Christians
- Erwin Kalser as Herr Barthel
- Toni van Eyck as Hertha Barthel
- Ruth Hellberg as Gertrud Kroschelt
- Ilse Korseck as Margot
- Eduard Rothauser as Invalide Schultheiss
- Elsa Wagner as Mutter Kroschelt
- Fritz Odemar as Oberpostsekretär Haber
- Hans Hermann Schaufuß as Vater Kroschelt
- Hedy Krilla as Fräulein Berghuhn
Release
Leo Brecher attempted to release the film in the United States under the title Hertha's Awakening (Herthas Erwachen), but it was banned in New York.{{sfn|Waldman|2008|p=37}}
References
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Works cited
- {{cite book|last=Waldman |first=Harry |title=Nazi Films In America, 1933-1942 |publisher=McFarland & Company |year=2008 |isbn=9780786438617}}
Bibliography
- Kreimeier, Klaus. The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918-1945. University of California Press, 1999.
- Rentschler, Eric. The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife. Harvard University Press, 1996.
External links
- {{IMDb title|0023671}}
{{Gerhard Lamprecht}}
Category:Films of the Weimar Republic
Category:1930s German-language films
Category:Films directed by Gerhard Lamprecht
Category:German black-and-white films
Category:Films shot at Babelsberg Studios
Category:Films scored by Eduard Künneke
Category:German-language drama films
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