The Great Mandarin

1949 film

CinematographyWerner KrienEdited byErwin NieckeMusic byHans-Otto Borgmann

Production
company

Nova-Filmproduktion

Distributed byBavaria Film

Release date

18 February 1949 (1949-02-18)

Running time

105 minutesCountryWest GermanyLanguageGerman

The Great Mandarin (German: Der große Mandarin) is a 1949 West German comedy drama film directed by Karl-Heinz Stroux and starring Paul Wegener, Carsta Löck, and Käthe Haack.^[1] It was the final film of the veteran actor Wegener.

Cast

Paul Wegener as Mandarin
Carsta Löck as Schreiberin
Käthe Haack as Mutter
Christiane Felsmann as Tochter
Hubert von Meyerinck as Chinesischer Staatsbeamter
Rudolf Reiff
Friedrich Siemers
Clemens Hasse
Karl Hellmer
Hans Stiebner
Herbert Weissbach
Karl Hannemann
Gustav Püttjer
Annemarie Hase
Steffie Spira
Margarete Schön
Michael Günther
Erich Dunskus
Franz Weber

References

^ Bock & Bergfelder, p. 52.

Bibliography

Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9.