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. 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.
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
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.