The Governor (German: Der Gouverneur) is a 1939 German drama film directed by Viktor Tourjansky and starring Brigitte Horney, Willy Birgel and Hannelore Schroth. It is based on the play Die Fahne by Emmerich Groh. It was shot at the Babelsberg and Tempelhof Studios in Berlin and on location in East Prussia. The film's sets were designed by the art director Max Mellin. It was produced on a budget of 715,000 Reichsmarks.
Synopsis
In a fictional Scandinavian country, a high-ranking military officer decides to overthrow Parliament. Salvation in the party turmoil is the military dictatorship under the resolute governor General Werkonen. The new deputy ensures that an assassination attempt is carried out on them. However, the general is only slightly injured when it is executed. The hired assassin now feels abandoned by his employer and takes revenge by killing him.
The suspicion of murder falls on the young guards officer, Lieutenant Robert Runeberg, the son of the former landowner, who probably had a motive because of the alleged forgery of his father's bills. And that very officer cannot reveal his alibi; because said alibi is a simultaneous conversation with his childhood friend Maria, the current wife of the military governor, and he doesn't want to compromise her. While everyone involved is still struggling with questions of conscience, the guards officer is about to grab his pistol and the governor is about to resign, the real murderer turns up in good time. With that, all honor and especially the honor of the body regiment is saved.
Cast
Brigitte Horney as Maria
Willy Birgel as General Werkonen
Hannelore Schroth as Ebba
Ernst von Klipstein as Leutnant Robert Runeberg
Rolf Weih as Leutnant Kalminen
Walter Franck as Dr. Erko
Paul Bildt as Gutsbesitzer Runeberg
Lotte Spira as Frau Runeberg
Werner Pledath as Oberst Wantua
Albert Florath as Oberst Perkaulen
Paul Otto as Ministerpräsident Lönnrot
Ingolf Kuntze as Gutsbesitzer Maris
Karl-Heinz Peters as Tom Lynge
F.W. Schröder-Schrom as General Borgas
Karl Meixner as Diener bei Dr. Erko
Nicolas Koline as Jan, Koch in Marias Elternhaus
Valy Arnheim as Diener bei General Werkonen
Franz Arzdorf as Zivilist im Gefolge des Staatspräsidenten
Charly Berger as Offizier im Gefolge
Reinhold Bernt as Mitglied der Radikalen Partei
Theo Brandt as Junger Offizier
Fritz Eckert as Ein weiterer Offizier
Max Harry Ernst as Parlamentsmitglied
Charles Francois as Parlamentsmitglied
Fred Goebel as Offizier der Polizeiwache
Otto F. Henning as Stabsarzt
Alfred Karen as Parlamentsmitglied
Hans Kettler as Polizeikommissar am Tatort
Otto Klopsch as Polizeikommissar
Ida Krill as Küchenhilfe bei Maria
Heinrich Marlow as Staatspräsident
Max Mensing as Regierungsmitglied
Klaus Pohl as Mann am Bahnhof, der sich eine Zigarette anzündet
Georg A. Profé as Offizier
Arthur Reinhardt as Limonadenverkäufer am Bahnsteig
Ferdinand Robert as Gast beim Empfang des Gouverneurs
Walter Schramm-Duncker as Gast auf Gut Marias
Otz Tollen as Stabsoffizier des Fahnenregiments
Elisabeth von Ruets as Gast beim Empfang des Gouverneurs
Erich Walter as Polizeipräfekt
Borwin Walth as Diener beim Empfang
Eduard Wenck as Zeitschriftenverkäufer am Bahnsteig
Kurt Wieschala as Regierungsmitglied
References
Bibliography
Waldman, Harry. Nazi Films in America, 1933–1942. McFarland, 2008.