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Inquest is a film of genre Drama directed by Robert Siodmak with Albert Bassermann

Inquest (1931)

Inquest
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Length 1h35
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Genres Drama,    Crime
Rating62% 3.138443.138443.138443.138443.13844

Inquest (German: Voruntersuchung) is a 1931 German crime film directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Albert Bassermann, Gustav Fröhlich and Hans Brausewetter. Along with another film that Siodmak made the same year Storms of Passion, it anticipates the later development of film noir. It was made by German's largest studio Universum Film, with sets designed by art director Erich Kettelhut. Paul Martin, who soon after emerged as a leading director, was assistant director to Siodmak on the film. It was based on a 1927 play of the same title by Max Alsberg and Ernst Hesse.

Synopsis

When a prostitute is murdered in a cheap Berlin boarding house, an investigating judge suspects that the killer is her boyfriend, unaware that his own son and daughter are also mixed up in the case.

Actors

Albert Bassermann

(Dr. Konrad Bienert, Landgerichtsrat)Gustav Fröhlich

(Fritz Bernt, Student)Hans Brausewetter

(Walter Bienert, Beinerts Sohn, Student)Oskar Sima

(Karl Zülke, Portier)Heinrich Gretler

(Kurt Brann, sein Untermieter)
And :
Anni Markart
Julius Falkenstein
Edith Meinhard
Gerhard Bienert
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