The Postmaster (1940)
April 23, 1940Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
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Cast & Crew.
Heinrich George
Der Postmeister
Hilde Krahl
Dunja
Siegfried Breuer
Rittmeister Minskij
Hans Holt
Fähnrich Mitja
Ruth Hellberg
Elisawetha
Hugo Gottschlich
Diener des Rittmeisters
Margit Symo
Mascha
Erik Frey
Sergej
Alfred Neugebauer
Gutsbesitzer
Franz Pfaudler
Knecht Pjotr
Leo Peukert
Oberst
Gustav Ucicky
Director
Reinhold Häussermann
Schneider
Alexander Pushkin
Writer
Auguste Pünkösdy
Wirobowa
Gerhard Menzel
Writer
Media.
Details.
Release DateApril 23, 1940
Original NameDer Postmeister
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 32m
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This Movie Is About.
Wiki.
Der Postmeister (English: The Postmaster or The Stationmaster) is a 1940 Austrian-German film directed by Gustav Ucicky. Released during the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, it depicts Russians in a sympathetic light, unlike their depiction in such films as Frisians in Peril before or GPU after. It was very loosely based on The Station Master, an 1831 short story from The Belkin Tales series by Alexander Pushkin. It was remade in 1955 as Dunja. An earlier version was the French film Nostalgie (1938) with Harry Baur, directed by Victor Tourjansky.
The film's sets were designed by the art directors Kurt Herlth and Werner Schlichting. It was made in Austria when it was part of Nazi Germany, by the Wien Film company, and distributed by the UFA concern.
At the Venice Film Festival, Der Postmeister won the Mussolini Cup for best foreign film.