Invisible Opponent

For the 1977 film, see Invisible Adversaries.

Invisible Opponent (German: Unsichtbare Gegner) is a 1933 German-Austrian drama film directed by Rudolph Cartier and starring Gerda Maurus, Paul Hartmann, and Oskar Homolka. The film's sets were designed by the art director Erwin Scharf. The film was made at the Sievering Studios in Vienna. The critics were not generally impressed with the film, with the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung describing it as an "unbelievable and unbelievably awful picture".^[2]

Invisible Opponent
Directed by	Rudolph Cartier
Written by	Philipp Lothar Mayring Heinrich Oberländer Reinhart Steinbicker Ludwig von Wohl
Produced by	Sam Spiegel
Starring	Gerda Maurus Paul Hartmann Oskar Homolka
Cinematography	Georg Bruckbauer Eugen Schüfftan
Edited by	Rudi Fehr[1] Rudolf Schaad
Music by	Rudolph Schwarz
Production companies	Sascha-Verleih Pan-Film Robert Müller Filmproduktion
Distributed by	Märkische Film (Germany)
Release date	18 September 1933 (1933-09-18)
Running time	87 minutes
Countries	Austria Germany
Language	German

A separate French-language version The Oil Sharks was also released.^[3]

Synopsis

The plot revolves around an oil swindle in a South American country.

Cast

• Gerda Maurus as Sybil Herford
• Paul Hartmann as Peter Ugron
• Oskar Homolka as James Godfrey
• Peter Lorre as Henry Pless
• Paul Kemp as Hans Mertens
• Raoul Aslan as J. Delmonte
• Leonard Steckel as Santos
• H. Kyser as Sir Thomas
• Eva Schmid-Kayser as Eva Ugron
• Jaro Fürth
• John Mylong
• Otto Schmöle
• Franke
• Maria Holst
• Josef Rehberger
• Wilhelm Stauffen
• Mihail Xantho