Pechmarie
Cast & Crew
Erich Engel
Jenny Jugo
Friedrich Benfer
Willy Schur
Mally Georgi
E. G. Schiffner
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Mary, who lives by herself in a furnished room in Berlin and makes a poor living at the newsstand that she owns, has been the victim of a streak of bad luck. She and her sweetheart, a painter, end their relationship when she misunderstands his attitude towards a previous girl friend and he becomes jealous of her attentions to an elderly vagabond, whom she has befriended. Mary's luck changes when the vagabond realizes that a lottery ticket given her by an African explorer contains the winning number. Mary and the painter reconcile when their misunderstandings are cleared up, and they move in to their own home in the suburbs.
Director
Erich Engel
Cast
Jenny Jugo
Friedrich Benfer
Willy Schur
Mally Georgi
E. G. Schiffner
Gerhard Bienert
Karl Hannemann
Hans V. Zedlitz
Lewis Brody
Film Details
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Notes
The reviews of the New York opening translate the title as "Hard Luck Marie." The Variety review and PCA information in the MPAA/PCA Collection at the AMPAS Library state that Fox produced and released this film, which was made in Germany, while NYSA records list Klagemann-Film GmbH. as the production company. As a modern source also lists Klagemann, and credits Deutsche Fox-Film AG. as the releasing company in Germany, it is possible that the film was a co-production or that Fox was only involved in its distribution. New York Times remarked that the film "has a certain charm because of its realism in showing how a large fraction of the residents of the German capital work and try to enjoy themselves." Modern sources state that the film was released in Germany on September 12, 1934 and list the following additional credits: Writer Eva Leidmann and Erich Engel; Photography Willy Winterstein ; Music Theo Mackeben; and lists Hans Kettler, Artur Malkowsky, Wolfgang Staudte, Josef Reithofer, Horst Birr, Dolly Raphael, Hans Meyer-Hanno, Arthur Reinhardt and Eva Schmidt-Kaiser as additional cast members.
