Gasparone

Germany

1937

94 Min

Black and White

1.37:1

German

Currently 3.0/5 Stars.
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SCR Werner Eplinius, Hans Leip, Rudo Ritter

CAST Marika Rökk, Johannes Heesters, Heinz Schorlemmer, Edith Schollwer, Oskar Sima, Leo Slezak, Rudolf Platte, Elsa Wagner, Ursula Herking, Arnim Suessenguth, Ernst Behmer, Erwin Biegel, Erich Kestin, Paul Schwed, Hildegard Busse, Fritz Draeger, Max Harry Ernst, Charles Francois, Walter Klam, Ferdinand Robert, Egon Stief

PROD DES Herbert Frohberg, Erich Kettelhut

Oscar Sima (Massaccio) runs a night club where his niece, Ms. Rokk (Ita), works as a dancer and singer. She has a boy friend name Sindulfo son of the head of the police chief played by Walter Slezak, He dissaproves of her and wants him to marry the daughter of a higher up. Oscar Sima illegally imports a certain kind of coffee in which marika helps by exploiting the old gasparone legend. Secret police agent johanne heesters goes to the village to catch this illegal importer of mountain grown coffee! It all falls when the police chief realizes that the grand dames brother has a dozen wives. —Amazon.com review

Director

Georg Jacoby

Georg Jacoby was an actor, film and theatre director. He started to play on stage in 1915 and in cinema in WWI propaganda films. After 1919, he was only a film director. In 1922, he made So sind die Männer (1923) (“The Little Napoleon”), in which Marlene Dietrich had a bit part. His first wife was Edith Meller, but in 1940, he met Marika Rökk. They got married and had one child in 1944, Gaby Jacoby, who also became an actress and singer. He made his best films with Marika during the 30s and 40s. —IMDb