Artists' Blood () is a 1949 West German comedy film directed by Wolfgang Wehrum, starring Hans Richter, Dorit Kreysler and Fritz Odemar.Baer p. 72 It was shot at the Wandsbek Studios in Hamburg and on location in mountain resort town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Kurt Herlth and Carl Ludwig Kirmse.
Synopsis A successful clown wants to marry the daughter of a factory owner, but his prospective father-in-law doesn't want a circus performer in the family and insists that he takes a job at the factory. With a heavy heart he agrees, but then discovering a doppelganger he persuades him to take his place. Confusion soon arises between them.
Cast Hans Richter as Clown Antonio & Anton Lammbein Dorit Kreysler as Lissy Schilling - Dolmetscherin Fritz Odemar as Steffens - Fabrikbesitzer Karin Jacobsen as Hannelore - seine Tochter Hubert von Meyerinck as Ricardo Pisetti - Manager Josef Sieber as Canossa - Garderobier Alexis as Liebling - Inspizient Petra Unkel as Gesine Pagel Luise Franke-Booch as Mutter Lammbein Hans Leibelt as Schröder - Portier im 'Continental' Carl Voscherau as Portier im 'Hotel Roß' Grethe Weiser as Die Vortragskünstlerin Walter Giller
References
Bibliography Baer, Hester. Dismantling the Dream Factory: Gender, German Cinema, and the Postwar Quest for a New Film Language. Berghahn Books, 2012.
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