A City Upside Down

1933 film

S. Z. Sakall
Jenny Jugo
Hermann Thimig

CinematographyFranz PlanerEdited by

Friedel Buckow [de]
Viktor Gertler
Putty Krafft

Music byWilly Schmidt-Gentner

Production
company

Elite Tonfilm-Produktion

Distributed by

Metropol-Filmverleih
Lux Film (Austria)

Release date

21 January 1933 (1933-01-21)

Running time

80 minutesCountryGermanyLanguageGerman

A City Upside Down (German: Eine Stadt steht Kopf) is a 1933 German comedy film directed by Gustaf Gründgens and starring S.Z. Sakall, Jenny Jugo and Hermann Thimig.^[1] It is based on the 1836 play The Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol. A separate Czech adaptation of the story The Inspector General was made the same year.^[2]

The film's sets were designed by the art directors Rochus Gliese and Gabriel Pellon. Paul Martin worked as assistant director on the film. Some location shooting took place in Staufen im Breisgau. This movie is set on the modern day (the 1930s).

Cast

S. Z. Sakall as Der Bürgermeister
Jenny Jugo as Trude, seine Tochter
Hermann Thimig as Heinz, ein junger Mann
Heinrich Schroth as Revisionsrat
Berthe Ostyn as Sein 'blondes Gift'
Aribert Wäscher
Lotte Stein as Frau Cruse
Maya Bruhns as Tochter
Fritz Kampers as Herr Güterinspektor
Carla Bartheel as Seine Frau
Paul Henckels as Herr Berger
Theo Lingen as Fred, ein Sohn
Hans Deppe as Schulrat Klein
Arthur Meinzer [de] as Sanitätsrat Strucker
Herbert Paulmüller [de] as Amtsdiener Bieber
Friedrich Honna [de] as Innkeeper
Lotte Loebinger [de] as Lehrerin
Renate Bergk as Renate
Laurie Lane [de] as Sophie
Willi Schur as Paul

References

^ Grange 2008, p. 404.
^ Waldman 2008, p. 132.

Bibliography

Grange, William (2008). Cultural Chronicle of the Weimar Republic. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-5967-8.
Waldman, Harry (2008). Nazi Films in America, 1933–1942. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-3861-7.