Film

The Traitor

1936 · 92 min · ★ 6 · Dir. Karl Ritter

This 1936 film tells the story of the doings of foreign agents in Germany and their allies among the German population. Having placed an ad in a local paper looking for "contact with bigwigs in German industry", enemy agents Morris and Geyer end up making contact with an engineer named Brockau. Brockau has developed an improvement in turning oil into gasoline and that's just what these enemy agents are looking for. Brockau, for his part, needs money, because his girlfriend is a selfish cow who demands more and more toys and trinkets, which has put our naive little nerd deep into debt. Brockau, however, is not the only unwitting maroon to fall into the clutches of the evil agents: the former bank agent Hans Klemm, now doing his service in the Wehrmacht, ends up being contacted by an agent from the other side and ends up getting blackmailed into working for them.

Starring

Willy Birgel
Willy Birgel
Agent Morris
Paul Dahlke
Paul Dahlke
Geyer, his cohort
Heinz Wetzel
Hans Klemm
Irene von Meyendorff
Irene von Meyendorff
Hilde Körner
Rudolf Fernau
Rudolf Fernau
Dr. Fritz Brockau
Lída Baarová
Lída Baarová
Marion Brokau
Hans Zesch-Ballot
Hans Zesch-Ballot
Dr. Wehner
Volker von Collande
Volker von Collande
Inspector Kropke
Theodor Loos
Theodor Loos
Dr. Auer
Herbert A. E. Böhme
Herbert A. E. Böhme
Agent Schultz
Gisela von Collande
Gisela von Collande
Trude
Ewald Wenck
Ewald Wenck
Commissioner Schober
Hans Henninger
Tankist Maxe
Ernst Karchow
Ernst Karchow
Major Walen
Otto Graf
Otto Graf
Captain Dressler
Heinrich Schroth
Heinrich Schroth
Direktor der T-Metallwerke
Sepp Rist
Sepp Rist
Commissioner Kilian
Siegfried Schürenberg
Siegfried Schürenberg
Neumann