Spoiling the Game

Spoiling the Game
Directed by	Alfred Zeisler
Produced by	Alfred Zeisler
Written by	Fred A. Angermayer Philipp Lothar Mayring Fritz Rotter Fritz Zeckendorf
Starring	Heinz Rühmann Toni van Eyck Hermann Speelmans
Music by	Hans-Otto Borgmann
Cinematography	Werner Bohne Werner Brandes
Edited by	Wolfgang Becker Erno Hajos
Production company	UFA
Distributed by	UFA
Release dates	25 October 1932
Running time	99 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

Spoiling the Game (German:Strich durch die Rechnung) is a 1932 German comedy film directed by Alfred Zeisler and starring Heinz Rühmann, Toni van Eyck and Hermann Speelmans.^[1] Its hero is a young cyclist who enters a race.

It was made by German's largest film company UFA. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Willi Herrmann and Herbert Lippschitz. A separate French-language version Rivaux de la piste was also released.

Cast

• Heinz Rühmann as Willy Streblow - Rennfahrer
• Toni van Eyck as Hanni
• Hermann Speelmans as Erwin Banz - Rennfahrer
• Margarete Kupfer as Mutter Streblow
• Jakob Tiedtke as Spengler - Fahrradhändler
• Gustl Gstettenbaur as Gustl Spengler - sein Sohn
• Ludwig Stössel
• Flockina von Platen as Gina Paradies
• Fritz Odemar as Lißmann - Prokurist
• Harry Hardt as Manuel Rodriguet - Rennfahrer
• Otto Wallburg as Gottfried Paradies
• Fritz Kampers as Fritz Wagmüller - Willys Schrittmacher
• Kurt Pulvermacher as Der kleine Paradies
• Hans Zesch-Ballot as Hans Donath - Sportjournalist
• Carl Balhaus
• Trude Tandar
• Ernst Behmer
• Adolf Fischer
• Charlie Kracker
• Emilie Kurz
• Wera Liessem
• Ernst Morgan
• Liselotte Rosen
• Hans Hermann Schaufuß
• Werner Stock
• Toni Tetzlaff
• Rolf Wenkhaus
• Georg Kroschel
• Kurt Thormann
• Ewald Wenck

References

1. Wadlman p.46

Bibliography

• Waldman, Harry. Nazi Films in America, 1933-1942. McFarland, 2008.

External links

• Spoiling the Game at the Internet Movie Database