Alarm at Station III (German: Alarm auf Station III) is a 1939 German film of the Crime genre set in a fictional Scandinavian country under laws prohibiting the sell of alcohol during the mid to late 1940s. It was released on the 10th of November and has a run time of 96 minutes.
Plot[]
The film opens up with a meeting where statistics regarding Alcohol related deaths in the United States during the year 1943 are given in comparison to similar statistics in the dry nation of Germany (such as traffic related deaths compared to the US's alcohol related traffic fatalities in 1943). This meeting is being held to discuss implementing Prohibition in the unnamed fictional Scandinavian nation of the film.-you can help the wiki by expanding this-
Notes on the Setting[]
- The film takes place in the near future (film published in 1939 but statistics from 1943 given). The US had discontinued Prohibition six years before the film's release. The statistics given for the year 1943 are projections based on the increase of alcohol related deaths and domestic abuse in the US over those six years since the repeal of Prohibition. In a similar manner the decrease in alcohol related death and domestic violence given for Germany in the film is drawn from projections by Germany utilizing the statistics of the US in the years following it's implementation of Prohibition.
Production[]
The film was produced by Terra Films.
Cast[]
(list incomplete)
- Gustav Fröhlich as Arne Kolk, Zollwachtmeister
- Jutta Freybe as Elga Dohnert, Braut von Arne Kolk
- Kirsten Heiberg as Kaja, Chansonette
- Walter Franck as Dr. Talverson, Vorsitzender des Prohibitionsvereins
- Berta Drews as Frauke, Frau von Thomas Kolk
- Karl Dannemann as Thomas Kolk
- Hermann Brix as Axel, Sohn von Dr. Talverson
- Aribert Wäscher as Mister Fields, Krimminalkommissar aus Amerika
- Hans Nielsen as Hauptmann Karsten
- Hermann Speelmans as Ströhm, Zollpolizist
- Willi Rose as Bing, Zollpolizist
- Rolf Weih as Dahl, Zollpolizist
- Erik Ode as Egge, Zollpolizist
- Albert Florath as Kommissar Kalmi
- Hans Stiebner as Soot, Schmuggler
- Paul Bildt as Polizeiarzt
- Albert Lippert as Hendrik, Geschäftsführer in der "Teestube"
- Reinhold Bernt as Kai, Schmuggler, Kajas Bruder
- Karl-Heinz Peters as Nikko, Schmuggler
- Wolf Ackva as Holt, Zollpolizist
- Werner Schott as Polizeipräsident
- Rudolf Schündler as Inspektor Henning
- Hermann Pfeiffer as Sörensen, Mitglied des Prohibitionsvereins
- Josefine Dora as Mutter Galen, Cafébesitzerin
- Ewald Wenck as Sergant Galen, Polizeischreiber, Mann v. Frau Galen
- Walter Bechmann as Diener bei Dr. Talverson
- Tina Eilers as Krankenschwester beim Polizeiarzt
- Nicolas Koline as Verhafteter vor dem Polizeigericht
- Klaus Pohl as Lagerverwalter der Allgemeinen Brennstoff A.G.
- Gisela Scholz as Tochter Thomas Kolks
- Peter Dann as Sohn Thomas Kolks
Crew[]
- Director and Writer: Philipp Lothar Mayring
- Producer: Alf Teichs
- Producer: Walter Tost
- Set Design: Ernst H. Albrecht
- Music: Franz Gorthe
- Cinemotagraphy: Walter Riml
- Editor: Alexandra Anatra