Constable Studer
Directed byLeopold Lindtberg
Written by
Produced byLazar Wechsler
Starring
CinematographyEmil Berna
Edited byKäthe Mey
Music byRobert Blum
Production
company
Praesens-Film
Distributed byPraesens-Film
Release date
13 October 1939
Running time
112 minutes
CountrySwitzerland
LanguageSwiss German

Constable Studer (German: Wachtmeister Studer) is a 1939 Swiss crime film directed by Leopold Lindtberg and starring Heinrich Gretler, Adolf Manz and Anne-Marie Blanc.[1] The film is based on a novel by Friedrich Glauser. It was followed by a sequel Madness Rules in 1947 with Gretler reprising his role.

It was shot at the Rosenhof Studios in Zurich over the summer of 1939.

Synopsis

A policeman is not convinced that the prime suspect in a murder case is realty guilty and so decides to reinvestigate the case, despite the lack of co-operation from locals.

Cast

  • Heinrich Gretler as Wachtmeister Jakob Studer / Constable Jakob Studer
  • Adolf Manz as Bürgermeister Aeschbacher / Mayor Aeschbacher
  • Bertha Danegger as Mutter Aeschbacher / Mother Aeschbacher
  • Armin Schweizer as Gottlieb Ellenberger
  • Ellen Widmann as Anastasia Witschi
  • Robert Trösch as Armin Witschi
  • Anne-Marie Blanc as Sonja Witschi
  • Robert Bichler as Erwin Schlumpf
  • Hans Kaes as Polizist Murmann / Police officer Murmann
  • Zarli Carigiet as Schreier
  • Rudolf Bernhard as Schwomm
  • Sigfrit Steiner as Untersuchungsricher Steffen / Examining magistrate Steffen
  • Alfred Lucca as Gerber
  • Rita Liechti as Serviertochter
  • Mathilde Danegger as Frau Hofmann
  • Willi Ackermann
  • Lukas Ammann
  • Emil Gerber
  • Carlo Bertozza
  • Arnold Müdespacher

References

  1. Bock & Bergfelder p.169

Bibliography

  • Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.


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