Captain Wronski

Captain Wronski
Danish release poster
Directed by	Ulrich Erfurth
Produced by	Willie Hoffmann-Andersen
Written by	Axel Eggebrecht Michael Graf Soltikow
Starring	Willy Birgel Elisabeth Flickenschildt Antje Weisgerber Ilse Steppat
Music by	Norbert Schultze
Cinematography	Igor Oberberg
Edited by	Hermann Ludwig
Production company	Apollo-Film Deutsche London-Film
Distributed by	Deutsche Film Hansa
Release date	11 October 1954
Running time	99 minutes
Country	West Germany
Language	German

Captain Wronski (German: Rittmeister Wronski) is a 1954 West German spy film directed by Ulrich Erfurth and starring Willy Birgel, Elisabeth Flickenschildt and Antje Weisgerber. A Polish officer works undercover in 1930s Berlin to discover Nazi Germany's plans against his homeland.

The film is very loosely based on Michael Graf Soltikow's book about Jerzy Sosnowski.

The casting of Birgel in the title role referenced his best-known performance during the Nazi era when he had played another Rittmeister in Riding for Germany (1941).^[1]

Cast

• Willy Birgel as Rittmeister Wronski
• Elisabeth Flickenschildt as Jadwiga, seine Schwester
• Antje Weisgerber as Illse von Jagstfeld
• Ilse Steppat as Leonore Cronberg
• Irene von Meyendorff as Liane von Templin
• Paul Hartmann as Oberst Ranke
• Claus Holm as Dornbusch
• Olga Tschechowa as Frau von Eichhoff
• Axel Monjé as Major Momenbek
• Volker von Collande as Major Kegel
• Rudolf Forster as Oberst Maty
• Ernst Schroder as Stepan
• Marina Ried as Susi im RWM
• Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur as Ein deutscher Abwehrgeneral
• Rolf von Nauckhoff as SS-Unterführer
• Hilde Körber as Gefangenenaufseherin
• Margarete Schön as Gefängnisbeamtin
• Charles Regnier as Vorsitzender Volksgerichtshof
• Harald Holberg
• Alexa von Porembsky
• Paul Heidemann
• Erich Dunskus
• Hans Stiebner
• Ingrid Lutz
• Karl Ludwig Schreiber
• Walther Süssenguth

References

Bibliography

• Hake, Sabine. Popular Cinema of the Third Reich. University of Texas Press, 2001.

External links

• Captain Wronski on IMDb