The Stationmaster (1940)
Directed by: Gustav Ucicky
Written by:
Gerhard Menzel
Produced by:
Karl Hartl for Wien-Film GmbH
Music:
Willy Schmidt-Gentner
Cinematography:
Hans Schneeberger
Edited by:
Rudolf Schaad
Starring:
Heinrich
George: The Stationmaster
Hilde Krahl: Dunja
Siegfried
Breuer: captain Minskij
Hans Holt:
ensign Mitja
Ruth
Hellberg: Elisawetha
Margit Symo:
Mascha
Frida
Richard: Old woman in the train compartment
Alfred
Neugebauer: landowner
Franz
Pfaudler: servant Pjotr
Leo Peukert:
olonel
Erik Frey: Sergej
Reinhold
Häussermann: tailor
Auguste
Pünkösdy: Wirobowa
Oskar
Wegrostek: servant of the captain
Hugo
Gottschlich: valet of the captain
Anton
Pointner: Cavalier on the Neva River Bridge
Karl Ehmann:
old resident Sascha
Mimi
Stelzer: Katja, cook of the captain
Edwin
Jürgensen: secretary
Summary:
When two Russian captains of cavalry came to a German
post station one of them recalls what happened long time ago. He begins to tell
the story: Ten years ago a comrade of them made a resting at the post station
and fell in love with the station master's daughter. He promised everything to
her and finally convinced her to come with him to St. Petersburg. When both
arrived there she had to realize that her captain never had the intention to
marry her.
It
was based on The Station Master, a short story from “The Belkin Tales” series
by Alexander Pushkin.
At
the Venice Film Festival, it won the Mussolini Cup for best foreign film.
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