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A Man Astray (German: Ein Mann auf Abwegen) is a 1940 German comedy adventure film directed by Herbert Selpin and starring Hans Albers, Charlotte Thiele and Hilde Weissner.[1][2] The film is an adaptation of the 1938 novel Percy auf Abwegen by Hans Zehrer. It was shot at the Halensee Studios in Berlin and the Bavaria Studios in Munich. Location shooting took place around Lake Starnberg in Bavaria. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Paul Markwitz and Fritz Maurischat. A financial success, it was produced and distributed by Tobis Film, one of Nazi Germany's leading film companies.

A Man Astray
Directed by	Herbert Selpin
Written by	Harald G. Petersson Walter Zerlett-Olfenius
Based on	Percy auf Abwegen by Hans Zehrer
Produced by	Franz Vogel
Starring	Hans Albers Charlotte Thiele Hilde Weissner
Cinematography	Franz Koch
Edited by	Friedel Buckow
Music by	Franz Doelle
Production company	Tobis Film
Distributed by	Tobis Film
Release date	16 February 1940
Running time	88 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

Synopsis

Percival Pattersson, a wealthy Swedish industrialist disappears one morning without warning, and police suspect a crime. However his daughter Ingrid and a journalist both suspect he has deliberately vanished and set out to track him down. Pattersson has in fact been laying low incognito but when his daughter approaches, he flees to Geneva posing as the chauffeur of the singer Lisaweta who he has fallen in love with.

Cast

• Hans Albers as Percival Pattersson
• Charlotte Thiele as Ingrid Pattersson
• Hilde Weissner as Lisaweta Iwanowna
• Gustav Waldau as Raymondo Duvallo
• Hilde Sessak as Marcella Duvallo
• Werner Fuetterer as Nils Nilsen
• Peter Voß as Sully
• Herbert Hübner as Meyers
• Werner Scharf as Strakosch, Lisawetas Sekretär
• Gerhard Dammann as Der Wirt in der Taverne
• Charly Berger as Ein Direktionsmitglieder des Patterson-Konzerns
• Fritz Draeger as Ein Tänzer in der Bar
• Angelo Ferrari as Der italienische Chauffeur
• Harry Hardt as Empfangschef im Kasino-Restaurant
• Fritz Hinz-Fabricius as Archibald, Patterssons Diener
• Heinz Förster-Ludwig as Der Chauffeur bei Percy Pattersson
• Christa Dilthey as Die Sekretärin Nils Nilsens
• Alfred Karen as Ein Direktionsmitglied des Patterson-Konzerns
• Karl Junge-Swinburne as Der Schneidermeister der Chauffeuruniform
• Egon Stief as Ein Gast am Eingang der Taverne
• Theodor Thony as Ein Völkerbundabgeordneter
• Gustl Kreusch as Renée, Köchin
• Arthur Reinhardt as Ein Polizist
• Manfred Meurer as Der geohrfeigte Mitarbeiter Nils Nilsens
• Werner Schott as Carlsson, Patterssons Sekretär
• Friedrich Ulmer as Der Kommissar
• Aruth Wartan as Manula, der Chefkoch im Kasinorestaurant

References

Bibliography

• Giesen, Rolf. The Nosferatu Story: The Seminal Horror Film, Its Predecessors and Its Enduring Legacy. McFarland, 2019.
• Hull, David Stewart. Film in the Third Reich: Art and Propaganda in Nazi Germany, Simon & Schuster, 1973.
• Rentschler, Eric. The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife. Harvard University Press, 1996.

External links

• A Man Astray at IMDb

На других языках

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[de] Ein Mann auf Abwegen

Ein Mann auf Abwegen ist eine Filmkomödie und ein Abenteuerfilm des Regisseurs Herbert Selpin aus dem Jahr 1940. Die Literaturverfilmung basiert auf dem Roman Percy auf Abwegen von dem unter dem Pseudonym Hans Thomas veröffentlichenden Autoren Hans Zehrer. In der Hauptrolle verkörpert Hans Albers den schwedischen Großindustriellen John Percival "Percy" Patterson, der nach einer geschäftlichen Besprechung plötzlich spurlos verschwunden ist.

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- [en] A Man Astray

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