director: Kurt Gerron
year: 1931
country: Germany
alternative titles: Die Hochstaplerin

Peter Bergmann is a hard-working, modest bank employee with a salary that is much too low, at least according to his wife Jutta. She is determined to do something to get her husband a better position. She reserves a room in a luxury hotel and meets there with the sausage factory owner Marty. She tells Marty that her husband is a bank director and could help the sausage factory out of its financial crisis.
Jutta has a number of things going on at once, however. At the hotel, she meets the wife of mustard factory owner Knast. Mrs. Knast is in a twist with her husband over the fact that he forbids her to pursue her true calling as a singer. Jutta reckons that if she is able to reconcile the two, Mr. Knast will have to fork out a substantial reward but this undertaking requires quite a bit of skill. In addition, Jutta gets the idea of bringing the sausage factory owner with the mustard maker Knast together — for mustard always goes well with a good sausage! And voila: the two men become business partners, and Peter is named co-director of the Marty factory!

Assistant Director: Erich Holder.
Screenplay: Ernst Wolff, Dr. Friedrich Zeckendorf [aka Fritz Zeckendorf], Philipp Lothar Mayring.
Directors of Photography: Eugen Schüfftan, Karl Puth.
Camera Assistant: Bernhard Hellmund.
Still Photography: Eigil Wangoe.
Set Design: Hans Sohnle, Otto Erdmann.
Make-up: Adolf Braun, Friedrich Havenstein.
Editing: Konstantin Mick.
Sound: Walter Tjaden.
Music: Willi Kollo.
Lyrics: Willi Kollo.
Musical Director: Hanns Schindler.
Cast: Alfred Abel (Mr. Knast, mustard factory owner), Fritz Alberti (head of national credit bank), Julius Brandt, Maly Delschaft (Ileana Knast, chanteuse), Walter Eckard, Fritz Grünbaum (Agent Silbermann), Else Heims (Mrs. Klaffke, landlady), Theo Lingen (Ilena's manager), Edith Meinhard, Hubert von Meyerinck, Käthe von Nagy (Jutta Bergmann), Heinz Rühmann (Peter Bergmann, bank employee), Georg Schmieter, Georg Heinrich Schnell, Hermann Vallentin (Mr. Marty, sausage factory owner), Hans Waßmann (Dr. Sommer, neurologist), Ernst Wurmser.
Production Company: Universum-Film AG (UFA), Berlin.
Producer: Bruno Duday.
Unit Manager: Fritz Schwarz.
Shoot: 1931.
Original Distributor: Universum-Film Verleih GmbH (Ufa), Berlin.
Length: 9 acts, 2481 m, 91 minutes.
Format: 35 mm, 1:1.37.
Picture/Sound: b/w, Tobis-Klangfilm.
Censorship Details: 25 Aug 1931, no. B.29683, ban for young people.
Première: 18 Sept 1931, Berlin (Gloria-Palast).
Notes: the French version was shot in 1932 by Max de Vaucorbeil under the title 'Ma femme ... homme d´affaires'.
Copyright Holder: Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung, Wiesbaden

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