Release Date

23 Jun, 1961

Runtime

00:00: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

Florestan Mississippi, a public prosecutor by profession, visits a lady named Anastasia and, while drinking coffee with her, convicts her of poisoning her husband. At the same time, he asks for her hand in marriage, as he too has killed his wife with poison; the marriage is to be the "atonement" of the two poisoners. The four allegorical personifications in this comedy are, in addition to the loveless, absolute justice in the form of the prosecutor Mississippi, perfect equality, represented by the world revolutionary Saint-Claude, Christian love, embodied in the down-and-out, alcoholic tropical doctor Count Uebelohe-Zabernsee, and finally the "Frau Welt" of the old mystery play – Anastasia, who falls for everyone and betrays everyone, loves nothing but the moment, and dies with an invoked untruth on her lips.

Original Title

Die Ehe des Herrn Mississippi

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Actors

O.E. Hasse

Johanna von Koczian

Martin Held

Hansjörg Felmy

Charles Regnier

Edith Hancke

Max Haufler

Karl Lieffen

Ruedi Walter

Herbert Weißbach

Gudrun Genest

Tilo von Berlepsch

Jochen Blume

Hanns Ernst Jäger

Joachim Boldt

Crew

Kurt Hoffmann

Günter Franke

Ursula Mrukwa

Artur Brauner

Clemens Tütsch

Günter Beer

Alfred Braun

Charlotte Flemming

Kurt Rose

Georg Kroschel

Peter Möschlin

Eberhard Schröder

Fritz Anton

Lazar Wechsler