Black Fighter Johanna

Black Fighter Johanna

100 mins | Drama | Sept. 5, 1934

Germany under Napoleon. Johanna is travelling by stagecoach when one of its occupants, Major Korfes, is arrested by the French militia. Before capture, he gives Johanna a mysterious letter. To solve the mystery, she joins the German corps as the “Black Hunter”. A fantastic breeches role for the lesbian Marianne Hoppe, who two years later, married her gay film partner Gustav Gründgens to prevent persecution by the Nazis.

Black Fighter Johanna

100 mins | Drama | Sept. 5, 1934

Black Fighter Johanna
Germany under Napoleon. Johanna is travelling by stagecoach when one of its occupants, Major Korfes, is arrested by the French militia. Before capture, he gives Johanna a mysterious letter. To solve the mystery, she joins the German corps as the “Black Hunter”. A fantastic breeches role for the lesbian Marianne Hoppe, who two years later, married her gay film partner Gustav Gründgens to prevent persecution by the Nazis.
Producers
Original title Schwarzer Jäger Johanna
Directors Johannes Meyer
Writers

Cast

Marianne Hoppe

as Johanna Luerssen

Paul Hartmann

as Major Korfes

Gustaf Gründgens

as Dr. Frost, politischer Agent

Fita Benkhoff

as Johannas Tante, Philine Melchior

Paul Bildt

as Herzog Friedrich Wilhelm von Braunschweig

Oskar Sima

as Hofrat Zöllner

Rudolf Biebrach

as Oberst von Bernewitz

Anton Pointner

as Feldmarschall

Genia Nikolaieva

as Mademoiselle Köttschau

Jakob Tiedtke

as Amtmann Cropp

Angelo Ferrari

as Leutnant Péaulier

Ida Perry

as Amtmann Cropps Frau