Polizeibericht Überfall
Police Report of Mugging![](/media/filmstills/2018/retrospektive/201802179_1_RWD_1380.jpg)
Source: Deutsche Kinemathek, © Hans G. Casparius
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Heinrich Gotho (Mitte | middle), Eva Schmid-Kayser
Polizeibericht Überfall | Police Report of Mugging by Ernö Metzner
DEU 1929, Retrospective
Source: Deutsche Kinemathek, © Hans G. Casparius
A model citizen finds a coin on the street that turns out to be forged. He uses it to play dice in a tavern and makes a tidy sum. As he flees from two hoodlums who would like to relieve him of his winnings, he somehow ends up with a prostitute whose pimp is also after his money. Fleeing back to the street, he falls into the hands of the hoodlums … The censor’s office regarded this social satire, shot in avant-garde style, as nothing more than a “crime film” that “due to its accumulated brutality and harsh acts was likely to have a lowering and deadening effect”. It banned the film.
Crew
Director | Ernö Metzner |
Additional information
Film Print: Deutsche Kinemathek, Berlin