The Governor (1939 film)

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The Governor
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Directed by Viktor Tourjansky
Written by Emmerich Groh (play)
Emil Burri
Peter Francke
Produced by Hans Tost
Starring Brigitte Horney
Willy Birgel
Hannelore Schroth
Cinematography Konstantin Irmen-Tschet
Edited by Walter Fredersdorf
Music by Wolfgang Zeller
Production
company
Distributed byTerra Film
Release date
  • 23 April 1939 (1939-04-23)
Running time
99 minutes
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman

The Governor (German: Der Gouverneur) is a 1939 German drama film directed by Viktor Tourjansky and starring Brigitte Horney, Willy Birgel and Hannelore Schroth. [1] It is based on the play Die Fahne by Emmerich Groh. It was shot at the Babelsberg and Tempelhof Studios in Berlin and on location in East Prussia. The film's sets were designed by the art director Max Mellin. It was produced on a budget of 715,000 Reichsmarks.

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In a fictional Scandinavian country, a high-ranking military officer decides to overthrow Parliament. Salvation in the party turmoil is the military dictatorship under the resolute governor General Werkonen. The new deputy ensures that an assassination attempt is carried out on them. However, the general is only slightly injured when it is executed. The hired assassin now feels abandoned by his employer and takes revenge by killing him.

The suspicion of murder falls on the young guards officer, Lieutenant Robert Runeberg, the son of the former landowner, who probably had a motive because of the alleged forgery of his father's bills. And that very officer cannot reveal his alibi; because said alibi is a simultaneous conversation with his childhood friend Maria, the current wife of the military governor, and he doesn't want to compromise her. While everyone involved is still struggling with questions of conscience, the guards officer is about to grab his pistol and the governor is about to resign, the real murderer turns up in good time. With that, all honor and especially the honor of the body regiment is saved.

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  1. Waldman p.282

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