The Deruga Case (film)

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The Deruga Case
Directed by Fritz Peter Buch
Written by
Produced by Georg Witt
Starring
Cinematography Werner Bohne
Edited by Elisabeth Kleinert-Neumann
Music by Hans Ebert
Production
company
UFA
Distributed byUFA
Release date
22 September 1938
Running time
105 minutes
CountryNazi Germany
Language German

The Deruga Case (German : Der Fall Deruga) is a 1938 German crime film directed by Fritz Peter Buch and starring Willy Birgel, Geraldine Katt and Dagny Servaes. [1] It is based on the 1917 novel of the same title by Ricarda Huch.

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The film's sets were designed by the art directors Wilhelm Depenau and Ludwig Reiber.

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  1. Moeller p. 31

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