A Salzburg Comedy

A Salzburg Comedy or Little Border Traffic (German:Der kleine Grenzverkehr) is a 1943 German comedy film directed by Hans Deppe and starring Willy Fritsch, Hertha Feiler and Heinz Salfner. Erich Kästner wrote the screenplay based on one of his own novels. As he had been blacklisted by the Nazi Party he used the pseudonym Berhold Bürger. The novel was again adapted for the 1957 film Salzburg Stories. Although it was set in Austria, the film was not made by the Vienna-based Wien-Film which had been set up following the Anchluss of 1938. Instead it was produced by the dominant German studio UFA.

Cast

Willy Fritsch as Georg Rentmeister

Hertha Feiler as Konstanze

Heinz Salfner as Leopold

Hilde Sessak as Jutta

Charlott Daudert as Doris

Peter Widmann as Karl Kesselhut, Maler

Louis Soldan as Franz-Xaver von Raitenau

Auguste Pünkösdy as Karoline

Inge Drexel as Mizzi

Charlotte Schultz as Frau Dirksen

Hans Leibelt as Herr Dirksen

Hans Richter as Detlef

Elise Aulinger as Eine Bedienstete des Grafen

Julius Brandt as Eine Bedienstete des Grafen

Rudolf Brix as Fred, Tanzgigolo

Heinz Burkart as Der Lehrer, ein Tourist, dem der Steinwurf nicht galt

Angelo Ferrari as Der Kellner im italienischen Weinlokal

Erich Fiedler as Dr. Bürger, ein Freund Georgs

Lutz Götz as Dr. Bürger, ein Freund Georgs

Max Gülstorff as Der Geheimrat

Karl Hellmer as Der Zollbeamte im Bus

Leopold Kerscher as Ein Bediensteter des Grafen

Sonja Kuska as Die Verkäuferin im Salzburger Hutgeschäft

Maria Loja as Eine Marktstandverkäuferin

Ernst Martens as Der Hotelier in Bad Reichenhall

Marianne Probstmeier as Ein Zimmermädchen

Claire Reigbert as Die Frau des Lehrers

Else Reval as Tanzpartnerin vom Gigolo Fred

Ferdinand Robert as Ein Gast im Hotelrestaurant

Hans Schulz as Der Lohndiener im Hotel

Franz Weber as Sekretär

Ewald Wenck as Tetzlaff, Obersekretär der deutschen Devisenstelle

Carl Wery as Der Tourist mit dem Fernglas