The Abduction of the Sabine Women

The Abduction of the Sabine Women
Directed by	Kurt Hoffmann
Produced by	Artur Brauner
Written by	Emil Burri Johannes Mario Simmel Franz von Schönthan (play) Paul von Schönthan (play)
Starring	Gustav Knuth Fita Benkhoff Paul Hörbiger
Music by	Ernst Steffan
Cinematography	Albert Benitz
Edited by	Johanna Meisel
Production company	CCC Film
Distributed by	Allianz Filmverleih
Release date	2 April 1954
Running time	89 minutes
Country	West Germany
Language	German

The Abduction of the Sabine Women (German: Der Raub der Sabinerinnen) is a 1954 West German musical comedy film directed by Kurt Hoffmann and starring Gustav Knuth, Fita Benkhoff and Paul Hörbiger.^[1]

The film's sets were designed by the art directors Hermann Warm , Erich Grave and Paul Markwitz. It was shot at the CCC Studios in Berlin and on location in Bavaria.

Cast

• Gustav Knuth as Emanuel Striese
• Fita Benkhoff as Frau Striese
• Paul Hörbiger as Professor Martin Gollwitz
• Loni Heuser as Frau Friederike Gollwitz
• Anneliese Kaplan as Renate Gollwitz
• Bully Buhlan as Charly Gross
• Ernst Waldow as Emil Gross
• Willi Rose as Bürgermeister
• Ruth Stephan as Dienstmädchen Rosa
• Wolfgang Müller as Friedrich
• Edith Hancke as Fräulein Müller-Muthesius
• Hans Stiebner as Perchtramer
• Jakob Tiedtke as Bäckermeister
• Herbert Weissbach as Biologielehrer
• Margitta Sonke as Iphigenie Striese
• Norbert Steinkrauß as Othello Striese
• Wolfgang Condrus as Hamlet Striese
• Ekkehard Lau as Torquato Striese
• Friedrich Domin as Dichter
• Wolfgang Jansen
• Egon Vogel

See also

• The Abduction of the Sabine Women (1928)
• The Abduction of the Sabine Women (1936)
• Romulus and the Sabines (Italy, 1945)

References

Bibliography

• Reimer, Robert C. & Reimer, Carol J. The A to Z of German Cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2010.

External links

• The Abduction of the Sabine Women on IMDb