Komödianten-Emil

Komödianten-Emil (1980)

Drama

The early 1930s in Berlin. Cabaret artist Emil Damaschke wants to entertain people with his program - together with Ida, the attraction from Hungary. But because he risks a lip that is too big, he is thrown out of the "Rosenthaler" cabaret, ends up on the criminal circuit and briefly in prison. Back out again, he and his colleagues leased the "Rosenthaler", whose Jewish owners had fled abroad to escape the Nazis. They set up a cooperative. However, a gang of criminals who professed allegiance to the Nazis wanted a share of the profits and believed they had a free ride. Emil rejects Ida's intention to win over the workers as a new audience, he makes money with advertising and refuses to join the criminals. They kidnap Ida, murder her in the forest and make sure that Emil is framed for the murder. Emil ends up in prison and the criminals take over the cabaret - in Nazi uniform.

Director: Joachim Hasler

Casts

	Gunter Sonneson as Emil Damaschke
	Zsuzsa Pálos as
	Rolf Hoppe as Kommissar
	Wolfgang Greese as
	Dietmar Richter-Reinick as
	Karl-Ernst Horbol as
	Siegfried Weiß as
	Willi Schrade as
	Klaus-Peter Pleßow as
	Willi Neuenhahn as
	Ingeborg Naß as
	Volkmar Kleinert as
	Gerd Blahuschek as
	Paul Arenkens as

Crew