The Company's in Love

1932 film

The Company's in Love
Lien Deyers and Gustav Fröhlich at the swimming baths

German	Die verliebte Firma
Directed by	Max Ophüls
Written by	Bruno Granichstaedten Ernst Marischka Fritz Zeckendorf
Starring	Gustav Fröhlich Anny Ahlers Lien Deyers
Cinematography	Karl Puth
Edited by	Else Baum
Music by	Bruno Granichstaedten
Production company	Deutsches Lichtspiel-Syndikat
Distributed by	Deutsches Lichtspiel-Syndikat
Release date	22 February 1932 (1932年02月22日)
Running time	73 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

The Company's in Love (German: Die verliebte Firma) is a 1932 German comedy film directed by Max Ophüls and starring Gustav Fröhlich, Anny Ahlers and Lien Deyers.^[1]

It was shot at the Staaken Studios in Berlin and on location in Switzerland. The film's sets were designed by Robert Neppach and Erwin Scharf.

Plot

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When a temperamental film star storms off the set, a production crew shooting in the Alps decide to recruit a local post office employee to replace her. Complications ensue once they return to Berlin as they have all fallen in love with her.

Cast

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Gustav Fröhlich as Werner Loring jr. - deputy. Director of Ideal Tonfilm
Anny Ahlers as Peggy Barling - Film star
Lien Deyers as Gretl Krummbichler - Post office employee
Ernö Verebes as Heinrich Pulver - Assistant Director
José Wedorn as Leo Lamberti - Chamber singer
Leonard Steckel as Harry Bing - Director
Hubert von Meyerinck as Fritz Willner - Screenwriter
Fritz Steiner as Toni Bauer - Composer
Hermann Krehan as Karl Martini - Cinematographer
Werner Finck as Franz Klingemüller - Swiss Post Board of Management

References

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^ Fisher, Jaimey (2013). Generic Histories of German Cinema: Genre and Its Deviations. Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual. Boydell & Brewer. p. 93. ISBN 978-1571135704. JSTOR 10.7722/j.ctt31nhth.