Romance in a Minor Key

1943 film

Romance in a Minor Key
German film poster

German	Romanze in Moll

Directed by	Helmut Käutner
Written by	Willy Clever Helmut Käutner Guy de Maupassant (story)
Produced by	Hermann Grund
Starring	Marianne Hoppe Paul Dahlke Ferdinand Marian
Cinematography	Georg Bruckbauer
Edited by	Anneliese Sponholz
Music by	Lothar Brühne Werner Eisbrenner
Production company	Tobis Film
Distributed by	Deutsche Filmvertriebs
Release date	25 June 1943 (1943-06-25)
Running time	98 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

Romance in a Minor Key (German: Romanze in Moll) is a 1943 German historical drama film directed by Helmut Käutner and starring Marianne Hoppe, Paul Dahlke, and Ferdinand Marian.^[1] It was shot at the Johannisthal Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Otto Erdmann and Franz F. Fürst.

Cast

Marianne Hoppe as Madeleine
Paul Dahlke as Madeleine's husband
Ferdinand Marian as Michael
Siegfried Breuer as Viktor
Elisabeth Flickenschildt as doorkeeper's wife
Karl Günther as jeweler
Eric Helgar as Michael's brother
Karl Platen as Michael's servant
Anja Elkoff as singer
Walter Lieck as tall man
Ernst Legal as Hard-of-hearing man
Hans Stiebner as fat man
Hugo Flink as banker
Klaus Pohl as Pawnbroker
Leo Peukert as Cafe proprietor
Maria Loja as Wife of cafe proprietor
Ethel Reschke as Streetwalker
Karl Etlinger as branch director
Ernst Rotmund as police commissar
Walter Bechmann as Head waiter
Hans Parge as Shoe salesman
Hansi Schuendler as Shoe saleswoman
Rudolf Kalvius as Physician
Herbert Weissbach as elder musical director
Egon Vogel as florist
Hanns Waschatko as head of consistory
Helmut Käutner as poet
Karl Junge-Swinburne
Hermann Noack
Elisabeth von Ruets

References

^ Rentschler, Eric (1996). The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. p. 143. ISBN 0674576403.