The Murder Trial of Doctor Jordan

1949 film

Wolf Neumeister
Erich Engels

Produced by

Heinz Rühmann
Alf Teichs

Starring

Rudolf Fernau
Maria Holst
Margarete Haagen

CinematographyWerner KrienEdited byGertrud Hinz-NischwitzMusic byWolfgang Zeller

Production
company

Comedia-Film

Distributed bySchorcht Filmverleih

Release date

27 October 1949 (1949-10-27)

Running time

85 minutesCountryWest GermanyLanguageGerman

The Murder Trial of Doctor Jordan (German: Mordprozeß Dr. Jordan) is a 1949 West German crime film directed by Erich Engels and starring Rudolf Fernau, Maria Holst, and Margarete Haagen.^[1] It was shot at the Wiesbaden Studios in Hesse. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Kurt Herlth and Carl Ludwig Kirmse.

Cast

Rudolf Fernau as Tropenarzt Dr. Jordan
Maria Holst as Leonie Leborius
Margarete Haagen as Frau Leborius
Mila Kopp as Livia Mantuzza
Dorothea Wieck as Constanze Jordan
Kurt Waitzmann as Defense lawyer Dr. Lehnhardt
Axel Ivers as Prosecutor Dr. Radtke
Theodor Danegger as Vater Jordan
Martha Ziegler as Schwester des alten Jordan
Hubert von Meyerinck as Wedekind
Berthold Ebbecke as Kriminalkommissar
Rolf Weih as Assessor Werner
Erwin Kleist as Kriminalkommissar Keilholz
Hilde Willer as Frau von Rotter
Sonia Korty as Frau Treffs
Adalbert Gausche as Häftling Willi
Willi Umminger as Droschkenkutscher Scheibele
Viktor Hospach as Meyer
Grete Wurm as Dienstmädchen Lina
Mathilde Smolny-Heerdt as Frau Hübner
Maria Avianus
Heinrich Berg
Erna Buck
Egon Clauder
Gerhard Geisler
Wolfgang Jarnach
Ingolf Kuntze
Theodor Loos
Max Mairich
Katharina Mayberg
Marieluise Riexinger
Ernst Rotmund
Hans Rusch
Evelyn Sichert
Otto Wenke

References

^ Bergfelder p. 148

Bibliography

Bergfelder, Tim (2005) [2004]. International Adventures: German Popular Cinema and European Co-Productions in the 1960s. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-539-2.