The Marriage Swindler

The Marriage Swindler (1938)

Heiratsschwindler

A confidence trickster is released from prison and travels to a village where he blackmails and tricks women out of their savings.

Date of release
1938-02-15
TMDB
7.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Herbert Selpin

Casting

Interesting facts

The Marriage Swindler is a 1938 German drama film directed by Herbert Selpin and starring Eduard von Winterstein, Viktoria von Ballasko and Kurt Waitzmann. It is sometimes known by the alternative title Die rote Mütze. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Max Knaake and Karl Vollbrecht.

Production

The film was directed by Selpin for the small studio A.B.C.-Film, and distributed by the major company Tobis Film. It is based on a novel by Gertrude Von Brockdorff. Its neorealism and pessimistic tone were a sharp change from Selpin's recent work which had been dominated by musicals, comedies and society dramas and was extremely rare in the Nazi era when German cinema strove to be light and entertaining.

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