Not Afraid of Big Animals

Not Afraid of Big Animals
Directed by	Ulrich Erfurth
Written by	Karl Noti Louis Agotay Just Scheu Ernst Nebhut
Produced by	Walter Koppel Gyula Trebitsch
Starring	Heinz Rühmann Ingeborg Körner Gustav Knuth
Cinematography	Albert Benitz
Edited by	Hermann Leitner
Music by	Michael Jary
Production company	Real Film
Distributed by	Deutsche London Film
Release date	31 July 1953 (1953-07-31)
Running time	85 minutes
Country	West Germany
Language	German

Not Afraid of Big Animals (‹See Tfd›German: Keine Angst vor großen Tieren) is a 1953 West German comedy film directed by Ulrich Erfurth and starring Heinz Rühmann, Ingeborg Körner and Gustav Knuth.^[1] It is a circus film and a remake of the French film Le Dompteur [fr] (1938). It was shot at the Wandsbek Studios of Real Film in Hamburg. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Albrecht Becker and Herbert Kirchhoff.

• Heinz Rühmann as Emil Keller
• Ingeborg Körner as Anni
• Gustav Knuth as Schimmel
• Maria Paudler as Frau Müller
• Gisela Trowe as Emma
• Werner Fuetterer as Bollmann
• Jakob Tiedtke as Zirkusdirektor
• Erich Ponto as Polizeikommissar [de]
• Josef Sieber as Polizist
• Willy Maertens as Lawyer Immelmann
• Albert Florath as Ziegler
• Margarete Slezak as Frau Richter
• Ursula Herking as Dame in Straßenbahn
• Hubert von Meyerinck as Kunstreiter
• Bruno Fritz as Herr Richter
• Beppo Brem as Schornsteinfeger / Chimney sweeper
• Carl Napp [de] as Herr mit Koffer
• Wolfgang Neuss as Zauberkünstler
• Carl Voscherau as Mann in Straßenbahn
• Josef Dahmen as Schwerer Junge
• Ruth Stephan as Partnerin des Zauberkünstlers
• Max Schmeling as Zuschauer

• Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.

• Not Afraid of Big Animals at IMDb

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