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A Crafty Youth (German: Ein ausgekochter Junge) is a 1931 German comedy film directed by Erich Schönfelder and starring Julius Falkenstein, Sig Arno and Olly Gebauer. It was shot at the Grunewald Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Willi Herrmann and Herbert Lippschitz. It premiered in Hamburg in October 1931 and in Berlin the following month.
Synopsis
Ignaz Fischbein, an employee in a fashion store, is hypnotised by a magician into believing that is married to Mizzi, a girl he has just met and the two proceed to take a holiday in Bavaria. There he encounters his boss, on a trip with his mistress posing as his wife, and the real husband of Mizzi.
Cast
Julius Falkenstein as Adolf Strohbach, besitzer eines Modelhauses
Sig Arno as Ignaz Fischbein, sein Hausdiener
Paul Westermeier as Paul Kausulke, Bierkutscher
Olly Gebauer as Mizzi, seine Braut
Albert Paulig as Brahmaputra, ein Hypnotiseur
Henry Bender as Hugo Kunkel, inhaber der Pension Waldfrieden
Károly Huszár as Gregor Pawlowitsch, ein Anarchista-D
Maria Forescu as Vera, sein Gefährtin
Lotte Werkmeister as Evchen Schikedanz
Hermann Picha as Kasimir Makeldey, Naturforscher
Elza Temary as Rolly-Polly, eine Tänzerin
Gerhard Dammann as Hahn - Prokusist
References
Bibliography
Churton, Tobias. Aleister Crowley: The Beast in Berlin: Art, Sex, and Magick in the Weimar Republic. Simon and Schuster, 2014.
Klaus, Ulrich J. Deutsche Tonfilme: Jahrgang 1931. Klaus-Archiv, 2006.
External links
A Crafty Youth at IMDb