The Traitor

The Traitor

92 mins | Drama | Aug. 19, 1936

This 1936 film tells the story of the doings of foreign agents in Germany and their allies among the German population. Having placed an ad in a local paper looking for "contact with bigwigs in German industry", enemy agents Morris and Geyer end up making contact with an engineer named Brockau. Brockau has developed an improvement in turning oil into gasoline and that's just what these enemy agents are looking for. Brockau, for his part, needs money, because his girlfriend is a selfish cow who demands more and more toys and trinkets, which has put our naive little nerd deep into debt. Brockau, however, is not the only unwitting maroon to fall into the clutches of the evil agents: the former bank agent Hans Klemm, now doing his service in the Wehrmacht, ends up being contacted by an agent from the other side and ends up getting blackmailed into working for them.

The Traitor

92 mins | Drama | Aug. 19, 1936

The Traitor
This 1936 film tells the story of the doings of foreign agents in Germany and their allies among the German population. Having placed an ad in a local paper looking for "contact with bigwigs in German industry", enemy agents Morris and Geyer end up making contact with an engineer named Brockau. Brockau has developed an improvement in turning oil into gasoline and that's just what these enemy agents are looking for. Brockau, for his part, needs money, because his girlfriend is a selfish cow who demands more and more toys and trinkets, which has put our naive little nerd deep into debt. Brockau, however, is not the only unwitting maroon to fall into the clutches of the evil agents: the former bank agent Hans Klemm, now doing his service in the Wehrmacht, ends up being contacted by an agent from the other side and ends up getting blackmailed into working for them.
Producers Universum Film (UFA)
Original title Verräter
Directors Karl Ritter
Writers Leonard Furst

Cast

Willy Birgel

as Agent Geyer

Paul Dahlke

as Agent Geyer

Heinz Wetzel

as Hans Klemm

Irene von Meyendorff

as Hilde Körner

Rudolf Fernau

as Fritz Brockau

Lída Baarová

as Marion Brokau

Hans Zesch-Ballot

as Dr. Wehner

Volker von Collande

as Inspector Kropke

Theodor Loos

as Dr. Auer

Herbert A. E. Böhme

as Agent Schultz

Ewald Wenck

as Commissioner Schober

Ernst Karchow

as Major Walen

Otto Graf

as Captain Dressler

Heinrich Schroth

as Direktor der T-Metallwerke

Sepp Rist

as Commissioner Kilian

Josef Dahmen

as Agentenhelfer