A City Upside Down

A City Upside Down (German: Eine Stadt steht Kopf) is a 1933 German comedy film directed by Gustaf Gründgens and starring S.Z. Sakall, Jenny Jugo and Hermann Thimig. It is based on the 1836 play The Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol. A separate Czech adaptation of the story The Inspector General was made the same year.

A City Upside Down
Directed by	Gustaf Gründgens
Written by	Curt Alexander
Based on	The Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol
Starring	S. Z. Sakall Jenny Jugo Hermann Thimig
Cinematography	Franz Planer
Edited by	Friedel Buckow Viktor Gertler Putty Krafft
Music by	Willy Schmidt-Gentner
Production company	Elite Tonfilm-Produktion
Distributed by	Metropol-Filmverleih Lux Film (Austria)
Release date	21 January 1933 (1933-01-21)
Running time	80 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

The film's sets were designed by the art directors Rochus Gliese and Gabriel Pellon. Paul Martin worked as assistant director on the film. Some location shooting took place in Staufen im Breisgau. This movie is set in the modern day (the 1930s).

Cast

• S. Z. Sakall as Der Bürgermeister
• Jenny Jugo as Trude, seine Tochter
• Hermann Thimig as Heinz, ein junger Mann
• Heinrich Schroth as Revisionsrat
• Berthe Ostyn as Sein 'blondes Gift'
• Aribert Wäscher
• Lotte Stein as Frau Cruse
• Maya Bruhns as Tochter
• Fritz Kampers as Herr Güterinspektor
• Carla Bartheel as Seine Frau
• Paul Henckels as Herr Berger
• Theo Lingen as Fred, ein Sohn
• Hans Deppe as Schulrat Klein
• Arthur Meinzer as Sanitätsrat Strucker
• Herbert Paulmüller as Amtsdiener Bieber
• Friedrich Honna as Innkeeper
• Lotte Loebinger as Lehrerin
• Renate Bergk as Renate
• Laurie Lane as Sophie
• Willi Schur as Paul

Bibliography

• Grange, William (2008). Cultural Chronicle of the Weimar Republic. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-5967-8.
• Waldman, Harry (2008). Nazi Films in America, 1933–1942. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-3861-7.

External links

• A City Upside Down at IMDb