The Traitor

1h 32min

Drama

This 1936 film tells the story of the doings of foreign agents in Germany and their allies among the German population. Having placed an ad in a local paper looking for "contact with bigwigs in German industry", enemy agents Morris and Geyer end up making contact with an engineer named Brockau. Brockau has developed an improvement in turning oil into gasoline and that's just what these enemy agents are looking for. Brockau, for his part, needs money, because his girlfriend is a selfish cow who demands more and more toys and trinkets, which has put our naive little nerd deep into debt. Brockau, however, is not the only unwitting maroon to fall into the clutches of the evil agents: the former bank agent Hans Klemm, now doing his service in the Wehrmacht, ends up being contacted by an agent from the other side and ends up getting blackmailed into working for them.

Cast

Willy Birgel

Willy Birgel

Agent Morris
Paul Dahlke

Paul Dahlke

Agent Geyer
Heinz Welzel

Heinz Welzel

Hans Klemm
Rudolf Fernau

Rudolf Fernau

Fritz Brockau
Lída Baarová

Lída Baarová

Marion Brokau
Volker von Collande

Volker von Collande

Inspector Kropke
Theodor Loos

Theodor Loos

Dr. Auer
Ewald Wenck

Ewald Wenck

Commissioner Schober
Ernst Karchow

Ernst Karchow

Major Walen
Otto Graf

Otto Graf

Captain Dressler
Heinrich Schroth

Heinrich Schroth

Direktor der T-Metallwerke
Sepp Rist

Sepp Rist

Commissioner Kilian
Josef Dahmen

Josef Dahmen

Agentenhelfer

Release date

19th Aug 1936

Status

Released

Spoken languages

Deutsch