Cruiser Emden

1932 film

Alfred Halm
Louis Ralph

Starring

Louis Ralph
Renée Stobrawa
Hans Schlenck
Werner Fuetterer

Cinematography

Franz Koch
Josef Wirsching

Music byFriedrich Jung

Production
company

Bavaria Film

Distributed byBayerische Film

Release date

20 May 1932 (1932-05-20)

Running time

85 minutesCountryGermanyLanguageGerman

Cruiser Emden (German: Kreuzer Emden) is a 1932 German war film directed by Louis Ralph and starring Ralph, Renée Stobrawa, Hans Schlenck, and Werner Fuetterer. It was shot at the Emelka Studios in Munich. It is a remake of a 1926 silent film Our Emden which had also been directed by Ralph.^[1] The film depicts the German First World War cruiser SMS Emden.

Cast

Louis Ralph as Captain von Müller
Renée Stobrawa as Grete
Hans Schlenck as Adjutant
Werner Fuetterer as Petzold
Fritz Greiner as Mertens
Will Dohm as Russian Captain
Willy Kaiser-Heyl as Australian Captain
O.E. Hasse as English Officer
Julius Brandt as English Officer
Georg Henrich as Direktor Schröder
Kurd E. Heyne as Matrose der "Emden"
Toni Forster-Larrinaga as Anuschka
Rudolf Hoch as Captain of the 'Markomania'
Charles Willy Kayser as Offizier der "Emden"
Helmut Käutner as Matrose der 'Emden'
Else Kündinger as Stenotypist
Albert Lippert as Offizier der "Emden"
John Mylong as Offizier der "Emden"
Reinhold Nietschmann as Volontär Ender
Walter Pittschau as Offizier der "Emden"
Helmuth Renar as Offizier der "Emden"
Julius Riedmueller as Offizier der "Emden"
Norbert Schultze as Matrose der 'Emden'
Bobby Todd as Matrose der 'Emden'
Hans von Strobl as Navigation Officer

References

^ Kester p. 32

Bibliography

Kelly, Andrew. Cinema and the Great War. Routledge, 1997.
Kester, Bernadette. Film Front Weimar: Representations of the First World War in German films of the Weimar Period (1919–1933). Amsterdam University Press, 2003.