Adventure ·Drama · Germany · 1940 · 1h 31m

Between Hamburg and Haiti

Zwischen Hamburg und Haiti

Between Hamburg and Haiti poster
Director
Erich Waschneck
Cast
Gustav Knuth as Henry Brinkmann Albert Florath as Wilm Walter Franck as Melchior Schlömpp Ruth Eweler as Ingeborg Kurt Waitzmann as Gustav Petersen Grethe Weiser as Kitty
Crew
Robert Baberske — Director of Photography Walter Wischniewsky — Editor Werner Eisbrenner — Original Music Composer Walter Forster — Screenplay Josef Maria Frank — Screenplay Josef Maria Frank — Novel
Synopsis

A successful German overseas merchant with a plantation in Haiti is looking for a suitable wife in Hamburg and comes across a barmaid from the Reeperbahn with an illegitimate child. He wants to marry her, but she does not follow him out of nobility. In search of her, he finds her in Mexico as the secretary of his former lover, a writer.

Mood & Themes
haitihamburg, germany
Key Collaborators
Erich Waschneck Director Robert Baberske Director of Photography Walter Wischniewsky Editor Werner Eisbrenner Original Music Composer Walter Forster Screenplay Josef Maria Frank Screenplay Josef Maria Frank Novel Hermann Grund Producer Vera Mügge Costume Design
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