Anuschka (1942)

Directed by: Helmut Käutner

Written by: Helmut Käutner and Axel Eggebrecht

Based on: “Anuschka” by Georg Fraser

Produced by: Gerhard Staab

Cinematography: Erich Claunigk

Edited by: Ludolf Grisebach

Music by: Bernhard Eichhorn

Production company: Bavaria Film

Distributed by: Bavaria Film

Release date: 24 March 1942

Running time: 101 minutes

Country: Germany

Language: German

 

Starring:

 

Hilde Krahl: Anuschka Hordak

Siegfried Breuer: Prof. Felix von Hartberg

Friedl Czepa: Eva von Hartberg

Rolf Wanka: Dr. Sascha Wendt

Ellen Hille: Lina

Anton Pointner: Leopold

Beppo Schwaiger: Jaro Nowarek

Elise Aulinger: Maria Nowarek

Paula Menari: Frau Huber

Fritz Odemar: Baron Fery

Karl Etlinger: Lawyer Virag

Lotte Lang: Mizzi, prostitute

Oskar Höcker: Police Detective

Michael von Newlinsky: Wendt's Manservant

Herta Neupert: Young Woman who informs Anuschka of the fire

Karl Hellmer

Ludwig Auer

Lucie Becker

Marianne Doerwald

Irma Evert

Harry Hardt

Georg Irmer

Alfred Werner Koekh

Irene Kohl

Hans Kratzer

Ruth Kruse

Karin Luesebrink

Anni Markart

Franz Pfaudler

Klaus Pohl

Evan-Friedl Priehler

Martha Salm

Arnulf Schröder

Maria Sigg: Flower-girl at Gypsy Cabaret

Franz Stick: Pepi, manager of Faschingsball

 

Anuschka is a 1942 German historical drama film directed by Helmut Käutner, and starring Hilde Krahl, Siegfried Breuer and Friedl Czepa. It was shot at the Barrandov Studios in Prague and Cinecitta in Rome. Location filming took place in Carinthia. The film's sets were designed by art director Ludwig Reiber.

 

Plot

 

In rural Moravia, Anuschka loses her family farm when her father dies heavily in debt. She takes up an offer to go to Vienna to work as a maid to the surgeon Felix von Hartberg who treated her father following an accident. However, his wife Eva is having an affair and when she gives her husband’s gift of an expensive lighter to her lover, she allows Anuschka to wrongly take the blame.