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Express 13
Directed by Alfred Zeisler
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Starring
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Distributed byUFA
Release date
  • 14 May 1931 (1931-05-14)
Running time
73 minutes
CountryGermany
Language German

Express 13 ( German: D-Zug 13 hat Verspätung) is a 1931 German thriller film directed by Alfred Zeisler and starring Charlotte Susa, Heinz Könecke and Fee Malten. [1] It was shot at UFA's Babelsberg Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by Willi Herrmann and Herbert Lippschitz.

Synopsis

Revolutionaries plot to assassinate a president by blowing up the rail tracks in order make his train derail but this is averted just in time. Herbert Schmitt, a passenger on a nearby express train becomes mixed up with the attractive Dorit who wants to use him to help launch a second attempt to kill the president.

Cast

References

  1. ^ Paech & Paech p. 223

Bibliography

  • Paech, Anne; Paech, Joachim (2000). Menschen im Kino: Film und Literatur erzählen. J.B. Metzler. ISBN  978-3-476-01747-5.

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