I Am Sebastian Ott
Directed by: Willi Forst
Written by: Axel Eggebrecht and Eberhard Keindorff
Produced by: Willi Forst
Cinematography: Carl Hoffmann and Karl Löb
Edited by: Hans Wolff
Music by: Theo Mackeben
Production company: Bavaria Film
Distributed by: Bavaria Film
Release date: 11 August 1939
Running time: 101 minutes
Country: Germany
Language: German
Starring:
Willi Forst: Sebastian Ott / Ludwig Ott
Gustav Diessl: Strobl
Trude Marlen: Erika
Paul Hörbiger: Councillor Baumann
Ady Berber: Meinhardt, crook
Lorenz Corvinus: Privy Councillor at the exhibition
Felix Dombrowsky: Detective Inspector
Richard Eybner: Schmiedl
Pepi Glöckner-Kramer: Marie, girl at Holzapfel's
Hanns Hitzinger: Councillor Norden
Reinhold Häussermann: Professor Nissen
Eduard Köck: Eberle, factoturn in the Ott Gallery
Ferdinand Mayerhofer: Detective Inspector Hellriegl
Alfred Neugebauer: Dr Nemetz, criminal councillor in Prague
Fritz Puchstein: Secretary
Johannes Roth: Waiter
Werner Scharf: Paolini
Wilhelm Schich: Tailor
Otto Storm: Bank director
Otto Treßler: Colonel Holzapfel
Robert Valberg: Prosecutor in Copenhagen
I Am Sebastian Ott (German: Ich bin Sebastian Ott) is a 1939 German crime film directed by Willi Forst and starring Forst, Gustav Diessl and Trude Marlen. Some of the film was shot by the assistant director Viktor Becker. It was shot partly at the Sievering Studios in Vienna. It premiered at the Gloria-Palast in Berlin shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War. The film’s sets were designed by the art director Kurt Herlth and Werner Schlichting. The plot revolves around art fraud with Forst playing the dual role of twins, one honest and the other corrupt.
