The Street Song

The Street Song or The Streetsweeper (German: Gassenhauer) is a 1931 German musical crime film directed by Lupu Pick and starring Ina Albrecht, Ernst Busch and Albert Hoermann.^[1] The film was shot at the Grunewald Studios. It is a Berlin-set film, with sets designed by art director Robert Neppach. It premiered at the Ufa-Pavillon am Nollendorfplatz in the German capital.^[2] The film was a considerable public success and one of its songs, "Marie, Marie," by the Comedian Harmonists, became a hit record. A separate French-language version, Les Quatre Vagabonds with a different cast and music was also made.

Cast

• Ina Albrecht as Marie
• Ernst Busch as Peter
• Albert Hoermann as Paul
• Hans Deppe as Max
• Martin Jacob as Emil
• Wolfgang Staudte as Gustav
• Karl Hannemann as Hausverwalter Nowack
• Margarete Schön as Emma
• Willi Schaeffers as Impresario
• Werner Hollmann as Untersuchungsrichter
• Werner Pledath as Kommisar
• Rudolf Biebrach as Aufseher
• Hans Leibelt as Kriminalinspektor
• María Dalbaicín as Taenzerin
• Michael von Newlinsky as Tänzer
• Rudolf Blümner as Mann am Telefon
• Comedian Harmonists as Themselves
• Gustav Püttjer
• Albert Florath

References

1. ^ Carol Anne Costabile-Heming, Rachel J. Halverson & Kristie A. Foell. Berlin: The Symphony Continues : Orchestrating Architectural, Social, and Artistic Change in Germany's New Capital. Walter de Gruyter, 2004. p.304
2. ^ "Gassenhauer" (in German). Filmportal.de. Retrieved 25 May 2025.

External links

• The Street Song at IMDb