The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi

The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi (1961)

Comedy

Florestan Mississippi, a public prosecutor by profession, visits a lady named Anastasia and, while drinking coffee with her, convicts her of poisoning her husband. At the same time, he asks for her hand in marriage, as he too has killed his wife with poison; the marriage is to be the "atonement" of the two poisoners. The four allegorical personifications in this comedy are, in addition to the loveless, absolute justice in the form of the prosecutor Mississippi, perfect equality, represented by the world revolutionary Saint-Claude, Christian love, embodied in the down-and-out, alcoholic tropical doctor Count Uebelohe-Zabernsee, and finally the "Frau Welt" of the old mystery play – Anastasia, who falls for everyone and betrays everyone, loves nothing but the moment, and dies with an invoked untruth on her lips.

Director: Kurt Hoffmann
Writer: Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Casts

	O.E. Hasse as Florestan Mississippi
	Johanna von Koczian as Anastasia
	Martin Held as Frédéric René Saint-Claude
	Hansjörg Felmy as Graf Bodo von Überlohe-Zabernsee
	Charles Regnier as Sir Thomas Jones
	Edith Hancke as Lukretia
	Max Haufler as van Bosch
	Karl Lieffen as Santamaria
	Ruedi Walter as McGoy
	Herbert Weißbach as Finanzminister
	Gudrun Genest as Kanzlistin
	Tilo von Berlepsch as Außenminister
	Jochen Blume as Sekretär Beuss
	Hanns Ernst Jäger as Schlender
	Joachim Boldt as Polizeileutnant

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