Eight Girls in a Boat (1932 film)

1932 film

  • Helmut Brandis
  • Franz Winterstein
Produced by
  • Hermann Grund
  • Erich Waschneck
Starring
  • Karin Hardt
  • Theodor Loos
  • Helmuth Kionka
  • Heinz Goedecke
CinematographyFriedl Behn-GrundMusic byArthur Rebner
Production
company
Fanal-Film
Distributed byTerra Film
Release date
  • 21 September 1932 (1932-09-21)
Running time
81 minutesCountryGermanyLanguageGerman

Eight Girls in a Boat (German: Acht Mädels im Boot) is a 1932 German musical film directed by Erich Waschneck and starring Karin Hardt, Theodor Loos, and Helmuth Kionka.[1] It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by art director Alfred Junge.

The film has been remade twice, as the 1934 American film Eight Girls in a Boat and as the 1958 Dutch film Jenny. Neither remake was a musical.

Plot

18-year-old schoolgirl Christa realizes that she is pregnant. Urged to have an abortion by the child's father and rejected by her father, she is in despair. She gets hold and support from her friends in the "Seeschwalben" rowing club. With their help, it is possible to persuade father and friend to rethink.

Cast

  • Karin Hardt as Christa
  • Theodor Loos as Baumeister Engelhardt
  • Helmuth Kionka as Hans Hellbach
  • Heinz Goedecke as Fritz Lange
  • Ali Ghito as Hanna
  • Martha Ziegler as Frau Krüger
  • Austin Egen as Singer
  • Hedwig Schlichter
  • Friedrich Ettel
  • F.W. Schröder-Schrom
  • Katja Bennefeld
  • Hedi Heising
  • Doris Thalmer
  • Sabine Peters
  • Gunni Dreyer
  • Mary Norden
  • Herti Kirchner
  • Thea Dorree
  • Elfi Richsteiger
  • Helga Arndt
  • Ursula Schummat
  • Dolores de Padilla
  • Edna Gray

References

  1. ^ Hake, p. 250.

Bibliography

  • Hake, Sabine (2001). Popular Cinema of the Third Reich. Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-73458-6.
  • Eight Girls in a Boat at IMDb
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