The Wrong Husband

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The Wrong Husband
Directed by	Johannes Guter
Written by	Paul Frank Billy Wilder
Produced by	Bruno Duday
Starring	Johannes Riemann Maria Paudler Gustav Waldau
Cinematography	Constantin Mick
Edited by	Carl Hoffmann
Music by	Norbert Glanzberg
Production company	UFA
Distributed by	UFA
Release date	27 March 1931 (1931-03-27)
Running time	85 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

The Wrong Husband (German: Der falsche Ehemann) is a 1931 German comedy film directed by Johannes Guter and starring Johannes Riemann, Maria Paudler and Gustav Waldau. It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin and on location in Saint Moritz. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Robert Herlth and Walter Röhrig. The future director Billy Wilder worked on the film's screenplay.

Synopsis

Peter and Paul Hanneman are identical twin brothers with very different personalities. Peter is a manufacturer of sleeping pills, whose marriage to Ruth is under strain and whose business is struggling due to his reserved manner. His hyper-energetic brother Paul decides to help him out by taking his place for a while. This leads to a series of misunderstandings and confusions both with Ruth and with Paul's girlfriend Ines. Paul decides to replace the sleeping medicine and being producing a new invigorating drug. The Argentine millionaire Hardegg, the father of ines, kidnaps Peter who he mistakes for Paul and brings him to a Swiss ski resort to make him marry his daughter.

Cast

• Johannes Riemann as Peter and Paul Hanneman
• Maria Paudler as Ruth, Peters Frau
• Gustav Waldau as H.H. Hardegg aus Buenos Aires
• Jessie Vihrog as Ines Hardegg, seine Tochter
• Tibor Halmay as Maxim Tartakoff
• Martha Ziegler as Fräulein Schulze, Sekretärin
• Fritz Strehlen as Ein Maharadscha
• Klaus Pohl
• Fred Kassen as Singer: Einmal wird dein Herzchen dir gehören
• Comedian Harmonists as Themselves

Bibliography

• Klaus, Ulrich J. Deutsche Tonfilme: Jahrgang 1931. Klaus-Archiv, 2006.
• Sikov, Ed. On Sunset Boulevard: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder. Hyperion, 1999.

External links

• The Wrong Husband at IMDb