What Men Know
1933 film
- 11 January 1933 (1933-01-11)
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What Men Know (German: Was wissen denn Männer) is a 1933 German drama film directed by Gerhard Lamprecht and starring Hans Brausewetter, Erwin Kalser and Toni van Eyck.[1][2] It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art director Werner Schlichting. It was remade as the Swedish film What Do Men Know? the same year.
Synopsis
A young woman from the country has a relationship with a travelling salesman who then abandons her. When she falls pregnant from the affair it causes a local scandal.
Cast
- Hans Brausewetter as Karl Christians
- Erwin Kalser as Herr Barthel
- Toni van Eyck as Hertha Barthel
- Ruth Hellberg as Gertrud Kroschelt
- Ilse Korseck as Margot
- Eduard Rothauser as Invalide Schultheiss
- Elsa Wagner as Mutter Kroschelt
- Fritz Odemar as Oberpostsekretär Haber
- Hans Hermann Schaufuß as Vater Kroschelt
- Hedy Krilla as Fräulein Berghuhn
Release
Leo Brecher attempted to release the film in the United States under the title Hertha's Awakening (Herthas Erwachen), but it was banned in New York.[3]
References
- ^ Rentschler p.281
- ^ Kreimeier p.218
- ^ Waldman 2008, p. 37.
Works cited
- Waldman, Harry (2008). Nazi Films In America, 1933-1942. McFarland & Company. ISBN 9780786438617.
Bibliography
- Kreimeier, Klaus. The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918-1945. University of California Press, 1999.
- Rentschler, Eric. The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife. Harvard University Press, 1996.
External links
- What Men Know at IMDb
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Films directed by Gerhard Lamprecht
- The Graveyard of the Living (1921)
- The Buddenbrooks (1923)
- The House Without Laughter (1923)
- And Yet Luck Came (1923)
- The Other Woman (1924)
- The Hanseatics (1925)
- Slums of Berlin (1925)
- Children of No Importance (1926)
- People to Each Other (1926)
- Sister Veronika (1927)
- The Catwalk (1927)
- Under the Lantern (1928)
- The Old Fritz (1928)
- The Man with the Frog (1929)
- Different Morals (1931)
- Between Night and Dawn (1931)
- Emil and the Detectives (1931)
- The Black Hussar (1932)
- Spies at Work (1933)
- What Men Know (1933)
- Just Once a Great Lady (1934)
- A Day Will Come (1934)
- Princess Turandot (1934)
- Turandot, Princess of China (1935)
- The Higher Command (1935)
- One Too Many on Board (1935)
- A Strange Guest (1936)
- Madame Bovary (1937)
- The Yellow Flag (1937)
- The Gambler (1938)
- Woman in the River (1939)
- The Girl at the Reception (1940)
- Clarissa (1941)
- Diesel (1942)
- The Noltenius Brothers (1945)
- Somewhere in Berlin (1946)
- Quartet of Five (1949)
- Madonna in Chains (1949)
- The Angel with the Flaming Sword (1954)
- Sergeant Borck (1955)
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