Marriage for One Night
1953 film
- Josef Berger (play)
- Franz Seitz (play)
- Karl Georg Külb
- Jochen Genzow
- Franz Seitz
- Gustav Fröhlich
- Hannelore Bollmann
- Adrian Hoven
Production
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Ariston Film
Release date
- 18 February 1953 (1953-02-18)
Running time
Marriage for One Night (German: Ehe für eine Nacht) is a 1953 West German comedy film directed by Viktor Tourjansky and starring Gustav Fröhlich, Hannelore Bollmann and Adrian Hoven.[1] It was shot at the Carlton Studios in Munich. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Ernst H. Albrecht and Arne Flekstad.
Synopsis
The photographer Hans Hoppe is an inveterate gambler as well as being the proud father of three children. His wealthy brother in America, Pedro, offers to pay a dowry for his three children to get married, but Hans uses the money to pay off his gambling debts at the racetrack. Things are thrown awry when Pedro arrives on a visit. Hans gets his children to act out the role of loving spouses, but when of one of his sons' "wife" falls in love with Pedro, he sees through the trick. He ultimately forgives his brother for his scam.
Cast
- Gustav Fröhlich as Pedro
- Hannelore Bollmann as Helga
- Adrian Hoven as Komma
- Gunnar Möller as Putzi
- Ingrid Pan as Jutta
- Katharina Mayberg as Anita
- Hans Leibelt as Hans Hoppe
- Rudolf Schündler as Turnegger
- Viktor Afritsch as Schauspieler
- Laya Raki as Tänzerin / Dancer
- Fritz Lafontaine as Rundfunkreporter
- Horst Winter as Jonny Reiner / Singer
References
- ^ Bock & Bergfelder p.139
Bibliography
- Hans-Michael Bock and Tim Bergfelder. The Concise Cinegraph: An Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.
External links
- Marriage for One Night at IMDb
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Films by Victor Tourjansky
- The Masked Woman (1924)
- That Scoundrel Morin (1924)
- Prince Charming (1925)
- Michel Strogoff (1926)
- Tempest (1928)
- The Adventurer (1928)
- Volga Volga (1928)
- Manolescu (1929)
- The Eaglet (1931)
- The Duke of Reichstadt (1931)
- The Unknown Singer (1931)
- Student's Hotel (1932)
- The Orderly (1933)
- Volga in Flames (1934)
- The Battle (1934)
- Dark Eyes (1935)
- The World's in Love (1935)
- La Peur (1936)
- City of Anatol (1936)
- Wells in Flames (1937)
- The Lie of Nina Petrovna (1937)
- Faded Melody (1938)
- Secret Code LB 17 (1938)
- The Blue Fox (1938)
- The Postmaster's Daughter (1938)
- The Governor (1939)
- A Woman Like You (1939)
- Enemies (1940)
- The Chaste Beloved (1940)
- Illusion (1941)
- Love Stories (1943)
- Tonelli (1943)
- Orient Express (1944)
- Three Times Comedy (1945)
- The Blue Straw Hat (1949)
- The Man Who Wanted to Live Twice (1950)
- Chased by the Devil (1950)
- Marriage for One Night (1953)
- Salto Mortale (1953)
- Arlette Conquers Paris (1953)
- Daybreak (1954)
- Island of the Dead (1955)
- The Royal Waltz (1955)
- The Goddess of Love (1957)
- Heart Without Mercy (1958)
- Herod the Great (1959)
- Prisoner of the Volga (1959)
- The Cossacks (1960)
- The Pharaohs' Woman (1960)
- The Triumph of Michael Strogoff (1961)
- A Queen for Caesar (1962)
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