The English Marriage () is a 1934 German comedy film directed by Reinhold Schünzel and starring Renate Müller, Anton Walbrook and Adele Sandrock. It was based on a novel of the same title by Ludwig von Wohl who also wrote the screenplay. The film's sets were designed by the art director Otto Hunte. Location shooting took place at Berlin's Tempelhof Airport and on Heligoland. It was made by Cine-Allianz and a number of those involved including its director, producers, screenwriter and star Anton Walbrook soon left Nazi Germany due to their Jewish backgrounds.
Synopsis
A young German woman is engaged to marry a British aristocrat but has to win over his hostile family.
Cast
Renate Müller as Gerte Winter
Anton Walbrook as Warwick Brent
Adele Sandrock as Lady Mavis
Georg Alexander as Douglas Mavis, ihr Enkel
Fritz Odemar as Percival, ihr Sohn
Hans Richter as Tuck Mavis, ihr jüngster Enkel
Hilde Hildebrand as Bella Amery
Etta Klingenberg as Roberta Buckley
Gertrud Wolle as Lady Buckley
Julius E. Herrmann as Sir Robert Buckley
Hugo Werner-Kahle as Digby
Gertrud de Lalsky as Gertes Mutter
Anton Pointner
Ewald Wenck
Olga Engl
Meta Jäger
Else Reval
References
Bibliography
Hake, Sabine. Popular cinema of the Third Reich. University of Texas Press, 2001. Strobl, Gerwin. The Germanic Isle: Nazi Perceptions of Britain. Cambridge University Press, 2000.