Punks Arrives from America
Punks Arrives from America (German: Punks kommt aus Amerika) is a 1935 German comedy film directed by Karl Heinz Martin and starring Attila Hörbiger, Lien Deyers, Ralph Arthur Roberts and Sybille Schmitz. Produced and distributed by UFA, it was made at the company's Babelsberg Studios in Potsdam.[1] The film's sets were designed by the art director Otto Guelstorff. Location shooting took place around Hamburg. Along with Fresh Wind from Canada it was one of several seemingly innocuous comedies released that supported the Nazi Party's Heim ins Reich policy.[2]
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| Directed by | Karl Heinz Martin |
| Written by | Walter Jerven |
| Based on | Punks Arrives from America by Ludwig von Wohl |
| Produced by | Robert Neppach Alfred Zeisler |
| Starring | Attila Hörbiger Lien Deyers Ralph Arthur Roberts Sybille Schmitz |
| Cinematography | Carl Drews |
| Edited by | Oswald Hafenrichter |
| Music by | Werner Bochmann |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | UFA |
Release date | 25 January 1935 |
Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | Germany |
| Language | German |
Synopsis
A German citizen who has been away in the United States, and has becomes Americanised and acquired the nickname of "punks" returns home after some bad fortune. He manages to eventually overcome his family and former friends' bad opinion of him by rescuing his uncle's business from a robbery.
Cast
- Attila Hörbiger as Werner 'Punks' Holzhausen
- Lien Deyers as Marlis
- Ralph Arthur Roberts as Holenius, Antiquitätenhändler
- Sybille Schmitz as Britta Geistenberg
- Henry Lorenzen as von Schlieff
- Oskar Sima as Sigorski
- Erika Glässner as Yvonne de Carmagnac
- Georges Boulanger as Ein Geiger
- Maria Meissner as Frau Oppmann
- Josef Sieber as Chauffeur
- Ekkehard Arendt as Ober im Golfclub
- Ernst Behmer as Bademeister
- Hermann Braun as Caddy im Golfclub
- Louis Brody as Barkeeper
- Adolf Fischer as LKW-Fahrer
- Illo Gutschwager as Junge an der Tankstelle
- Bruno Hübner as Bridgespieler
- Karl Jüstel as Hotelgast
- Alfred Karen as Hotelgast
- Paquita Lorenz as Verkäuferin
- Edith Oß as Dienstmädchen
- Bert Schmidt-Moris as Liftboy
- Aida St. Paul as Bridgespielerin
- Egon Stief as LKW-Fahrer
- Elisabeth von Ruets as Bridegespielerin
- Erich Walter as Markoff
- Hugo Werner-Kahle as Van der Meuleen
References
- Klaus p.158
- Rentschler p.76
Bibliography
- Klaus, Ulrich J. Deutsche Tonfilme: Jahrgang 1934. Klaus-Archiv, 1988.
- Rentschler, Eric. The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife. Harvard University Press, 1996.
- Waldman, Harry. Nazi Films in America, 1933–1942. McFarland, 2008.