At Your Orders, Sergeant

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At Your Orders, Sergeant
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German film poster
German Zu Befehl, Herr Unteroffizier
Directed by Erich Schönfelder
Written by Arnold Lipp  [ fr; de ]
Produced by Erich Engels
Starring
Cinematography Willy Hameister
Music by Will Meisel
Production
company
Engels & Schmidt Tonfilm
Distributed byErich Engels-Film
Release date
  • 7 January 1932 (1932-01-07)
Running time
86 minutes
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman

At Your Orders, Sergeant (German : Zu Befehl, Herr Unteroffizier) is a 1932 German comedy film directed by Erich Schönfelder and starring Ralph Arthur Roberts, Ida Wüst and Margot Landa. [1] It was shot at the Johannisthal Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Willi Herrmann and Herbert Lippschitz. It is a military farce set in the pre-First World War-era German Army.

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