Street Music (1936 film)

Street Music (German: Straßenmusik) is a 1936 German comedy film directed by Hans Deppe and starring Jessie Vihrog, Fritz Genschow and Ernst Legal.^[1] The film's sets were designed by the art director Max Seefelder. It was made by Bavaria Film at the Emelka Studios in Munich.

Street Music
Directed by	Hans Deppe
Written by	Paul Schurek (play) Hans Deppe Walter Gronostay
Starring	Jessie Vihrog Fritz Genschow Ernst Legal
Cinematography	Franz Koch
Edited by	Gottlieb Madl
Music by	Walter Gronostay
Production company	Bavaria Film
Distributed by	Bavaria Film
Release date	10 July 1936 (1936-07-10)
Running time	93 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

Plot

Hans, Otto and Paul are unemployed musicians. Grete, a neighbor, supports their efforts to become street musicians. Otto finds a valuable object but instead of turning it in, he sells it to buy alcoholic drinks. Hans spends his money with a widowed woman, Hilde, unaware that Grete is pregnant from him.^[2]

Cast

• Jessie Vihrog as Grete Witt
• Fritz Genschow as Hans Lünk - Straßenmusikant
• Hans Deppe as Paul Spittel - Straßenmusikant
• Ernst Legal as Otto Brommel - Straßenmusikant
• Fita Benkhoff as Hilde Neumann - eine junge Witwe
• Karl Valentin as Kürassier-Otto
• Liesl Karlstadt as Seine Frau
• Otto Wernicke as Godemann - Gastwirt
• Josef Eichheim as Der Bräutigam
• Else Reval as Ottilie Jänicke - die verlassene Braut
• Ernst Martens as Der Rundfunktintendant
• Alfons Teuber as Der Rundfunkansager
• Ernst Fritz Fürbringer as Geschäftsführer im Café 'Dorado'
• Willem Holsboer as Oberkellner
• Walter Holten as Ein Kriminalbeamter
• Hans Kraft as Gerichtsvollzieher