Venus on Trial

Venus on Trial
Directed by	Hans H. Zerlett
Produced by	Ottmar Ostermayr
Written by	Hans H. Zerlett
Starring	Hannes Stelzer Hansi Knoteck Paul Dahlke Siegfried Breuer
Music by	Leo Leux
Cinematography	Oskar Schnirch
Edited by	Gottlieb Madl
Production company	Bavaria Film
Distributed by	Bavaria Film
Release date	4 June 1941
Running time	90 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

Venus on Trial (German: Venus vor Gericht) is a 1941 German drama film directed by Hans H. Zerlett and starring Hannes Stelzer, Hansi Knoteck and Paul Dahlke. The film was part of the Nazis' campaign against degenerate art, and depicts the trial of a young artist who has resisted the trend towards it.^[1] The film was made by Bavaria Film at their Emelka Studios in Munich.

Cast

• Hannes Stelzer: Peter Brake, Bildhauer
• Hansi Knoteck as Charlotte Böller
• Paul Dahlke as Gottlieb Böller, Bürgermeister
• Siegfried Breuer as Benjamin Hecht, Kunsthändler
• Charlott Daudert as Marianne
• Ernst Fritz Fürbringer as Paul Dreysing, Zeichner
• Josef Eichheim as Prof. Semmel, Bildhauer
• Erhard Siedel as Der Kultusminister
• Carl Wery as Der Oberstaatsanwalt
• Hans Brausewetter as Der Staatsanwalt
• Hubert von Meyerinck as Dr.Knarre, Sachverständiger
• Justus Paris as Prof. Grimm, Sachverständiger
• Fritz Reiff as Der Vorsitzende Richter
• Peter Elsholtz as Der Verteidiger
• Adolf Gondrell as Bronsky, Agent
• Albert Hörrmann as Dr. Wertheimer, Referent des Kultusministers
• Peter Pasetti as Parteigenosse
• Liesl Karlstadt as Hausmädchen
• Fritz Hoopts as Brinkmann, Gerichtsvollzieher
• Eva Tinschmann as Rita, Empfangsdame
• Carl Ballhaus as Alfred, Peters Freund
• Heini Handschumacher as Reporter
• Rudolf Vogel as Dr. Gerhard Hümmelmann
• Heinrich Hauser as Obersturmbannführer Lotze
• Gabriele Reismüller as Sekretärin
• Charles Willy Kayser
• Walter Lantzsch
• Kurt Stieler

References

Bibliography

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

External links

• Venus on Trial on IMDb