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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. The film is an adaptation of the 1938 novel Percy auf Abwegen by Hans Zehrer. The sets were designed by the art directors Paul Markwitz and Fritz Maurischat. Shooting took place at the Halensee Studios in Berlin and the Bavaria Studios in Munich, with additional location shooting around Lake Starnberg in Bavaria. Produced and distributed by Tobis Film, one of Nazi Germany's leading film companies, the film was a financial success.
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
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