Overview
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.
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Setting
Set in Berlin
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Otto Baecker
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Robert SiodmakWriter
- Hans MüllerWriter
- Robert LiebmannWriter
- Original title
- Voruntersuchung
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- April 19, 1931
- Original language
- German
- Countries
- Germany
Production
Cast
Albert BassermannDr. Konrad Bienert, Landgerichtsrat
Gustav FröhlichFritz Bernt, Student
Hans BrausewetterWalter Bienert, Beinerts Sohn, Student
Oskar SimaKarl Zülke, Portier
Heinrich GretlerKurt Brann, sein Untermieter
Julius FalkensteinAnatol Scherr, ein Hausbewohner
Gerhard BienertBaumann, Kriminalkommissar
Charlotte AnderGerda Bienert - Bienerts Tochter
Annie MarkartErna Kabisch
Edith MeinhardMella Ziehr
Hermann SpeelmansBruno Klatte, Artist
Jakob TiedtkeEin genierter Herr- Heinz BerghausSchneider, Kriminalbeamter
- Carl LambertinKriebel, Kiminalbeamter
Emilia Unda
Erwin SplettstößerPolizist
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