Between Hamburg and Haiti (1940)
A successful German overseas merchant with a plantation in Haiti is looking for a suitable wife in Hamburg and comes across a barmaid from the Reeperbahn with an illegitimate child. He wants to marry her, but she does not follow him out of nobility. In search of her, he finds her in Mexico as the secretary of his former lover, a writer.
Director:
Erich Waschneck
Writers:
Walter Forster, Josef Maria Frank.
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Gustav Knuth as Henry Brinkmann |
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Albert Florath as Wilm |
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Walter Franck as Melchior Schlömpp |
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Ruth Eweler as Ingeborg |
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Kurt Waitzmann as Gustav Petersen |
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Grethe Weiser as Kitty |
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Walter Lieck as Hermann Polt |
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Will Dohm as Miguel Braga |
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Anneliese Kressel as Rosita |
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Michael Simo as Täm |
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Erich Dunskus as Hotelportier |
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Eduard Marks as |
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Leo Peukert as Geschäftsfreund |
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Gisela Uhlen as "Bella" Anna Wittstock |
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Manfred Meurer as Manuel |
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Franz Schönemann as |
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Lea Niako as Dolores |
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Siegfried Drost as |
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Bernhard Goetzke as |
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Erich Hecking as |
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Otto Kronburger as |
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Peter C. Leska as |
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Karl-Heinz Peters as Jackson |
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Erich Dunskus as Mexikanischer Hotelportier |
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Ernst Rotmund as |
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Hans Adalbert Schlettow as |
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Annemarie Schreiner as Chinita |
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Wolf Trutz as |
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Ernst Weiser as |
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Herbert Weißbach as Gast im 'Goldenen Hufeisen' |
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Manny Ziener as |
| Directing | Erich Waschneck | Director |
| Writing | Josef Maria Frank | Novel |
| Writing | Walter Forster | Screenplay |
| Writing | Josef Maria Frank | Screenplay |
| Production | Hermann Grund | Producer |
| Sound | Werner Eisbrenner | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Robert Baberske | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Walter Wischniewsky | Editor |
| Art | Ernst H. Albrecht | Set Designer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Vera Mügge | Costume Design |