Decoy (1934 film)

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Decoy
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Directed by Hans Steinhoff
Written by
Produced by Karl Ritter
Starring
Cinematography Konstantin Irmen-Tschet
Edited by Willy Zeyn
Music by Friedrich Wilhelm Rust
Production
company
UFA
Distributed byUFA
Release date
  • 10 November 1934 (1934-11-10)
Running time
99 minutes
CountryGermany
Language German

Decoy (German : Lockvogel) is a 1934 German adventure film directed by Hans Steinhoff and starring Jakob Tiedtke, Viktor de Kowa, and Jessie Vihrog. [1] A separate French-language version, The Decoy , was released the following year with a largely different cast. It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios and on location in Hamburg, Turkey and the North Sea. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Artur Günther and Fritz Maurischat.

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Synopsis

A young man is commissioned by his jeweler father to take a valuable necklace from Istanbul to Marseille. While on the sea voyage he is targeted by a gang of thieves, using a beautiful woman as a decoy. He is eventually assisted by another woman who is secretly in love with him.

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Criticism

Karlheinz Wendtland confirmed that the film was "designed with speed and all the refinements". Furthermore, he was of the opinion that the film adaptation was not lacking in humor and that it was "completely apolitical despite the director Steinhoff". [2]

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References

  1. ↑ Bock & Bergfelder p. 460
  2. ↑ Skopnik, Hans von; Kuhlwein von Rathenow, Horst, eds. (1934-01-01). Das deutsche Reichs-Tierschutzgesetz vom 24. November 1933 (RGS. I S. 987) mit Begründung (Deutscher Reichs- und Preußischer Staatsanzeiger Nr. 281/1933). doi:10.1515/9783111399867. ISBN   9783111399867.

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