Honour Among Thieves () is a 1966 West German comedy crime film directed by Wolfgang Staudte and starring Gert Fröbe, Mario Adorf and Karin Baal.Campbell p.53Rother p.468 Shot in Eastmancolor, it was filmed at the Spandau Studios in West Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Isabella Schlichting and Werner Schlichting.https://www.filmportal.de/film/ganovenehre_98ae8fb0ac2949b6b849459ce2a9f70f It was based on a play by Charles Rudolph, which had previously been made into a 1933 film of the same title by Richard Oswald.
Synopsis In Weimar era Berlin during the Roaring Twenties, safecracker Georg is released from prison and goes to work in a brothel run by Olga.
Cast Gert Fröbe as Paul Mario Adorf as Georg aka Orje Curt Bois as Emil Karin Baal as Nelly Helen Vita as Olga Gretl Schörg as Red Erna Ilse Pagé as Edith Robert Rober as Max Gert Haucke as Arthur Jürgen Feindt as Backe-backe Kuchen Martin Hirthe as Karl
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Bibliography Campbell, Russell. Marked Women: Prostitutes and Prostitution in the Cinema. University of Wisconsin Press, 2006. Rother, Rainer (ed.) German Film: From the Archives of the Deutsche Kinemathek. Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2024.
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