Spoiling the Game (German: Strich durch die Rechnung) is a 1932 German comedy film directed by Alfred Zeisler and starring Heinz Rühmann, Toni van Eyck, and Hermann Speelmans.Wadlman p.46 Its hero is a young cyclist who enters a race.
It was made by German's largest film company UFA and shot at the velodrome in Forst (Lausitz). The film's sets were designed by the art directors Willi Herrmann and Herbert Lippschitz. A separate French-language version was also released.
Cast Heinz Rühmann as Willy Streblow - Rennfahrer Toni van Eyck as Hanni Hermann Speelmans as Erwin Banz - Rennfahrer Margarete Kupfer as Mutter Streblow Jakob Tiedtke as Spengler - Fahrradhändler Gustl Gstettenbaur as Gustl Spengler - sein Sohn Ludwig Stössel Flockina von Platen as Gina Paradies Fritz Odemar as Lißmann - Prokurist Harry Hardt as Manuel Rodriguet - Rennfahrer Otto Wallburg as Gottfried Paradies Fritz Kampers as Fritz Wagmüller - Willys Schrittmacher Kurt Pulvermacher as Der kleine Paradies Hans Zesch-Ballot as Hans Donath - Sportjournalist Carl Balhaus Trude Tandar Ernst Behmer Adolf Fischer Charlie Kracker Emilie Kurz Wera Liessem Ernst Morgan Liselotte Rosen Hans Hermann Schaufuß Werner Stock Toni Tetzlaff Rolf Wenkhaus Georg Kroschel Kurt Thormann Ewald Wenck
References
Bibliography Waldman, Harry. Nazi Films in America, 1933-1942. McFarland, 2008.
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