Constable Studer (German: Wachtmeister Studer) is a 1939 Swiss crime film directed by Leopold Lindtberg and starring Heinrich Gretler, Adolf Manz and Anne-Marie Blanc. The film is based on a novel by Friedrich Glauser. It was followed by a sequel Madness Rules in 1947 with Gretler reprising his role.
It was shot at the Rosenhof Studios in Zurich over the summer of 1939.
Synopsis
A policeman is not convinced that the prime suspect in a murder case is realty guilty and so decides to reinvestigate the case, despite the lack of co-operation from locals.
Cast
Heinrich Gretler as Wachtmeister Jakob Studer / Constable Jakob Studer
Adolf Manz as Bürgermeister Aeschbacher / Mayor Aeschbacher
Bertha Danegger as Mutter Aeschbacher / Mother Aeschbacher
Armin Schweizer as Gottlieb Ellenberger
Ellen Widmann as Anastasia Witschi
Robert Trösch as Armin Witschi
Anne-Marie Blanc as Sonja Witschi
Robert Bichler as Erwin Schlumpf
Hans Kaes as Polizist Murmann / Police officer Murmann
Zarli Carigiet as Schreier
Rudolf Bernhard as Schwomm
Sigfrit Steiner as Untersuchungsricher Steffen / Examining magistrate Steffen
Alfred Lucca as Gerber
Rita Liechti as Serviertochter
Mathilde Danegger as Frau Hofmann
Willi Ackermann
Lukas Ammann
Emil Gerber
Carlo Bertozza
Arnold Müdespacher
References
Bibliography
Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.