In the Employ of the Secret Service

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1931 film

In the Employ of the Secret Service

German film poster

German| Im Geheimdienst
Directed by| Gustav Ucicky
Written by| Walter Reisch
Produced by|

* Noë Bloch
* Arnold Pressburger
* Gregor Rabinovitch

Starring|

* Brigitte Helm
* Willy Fritsch
* Oskar Homolka

Cinematography| Carl Hoffmann
Music by| Werner Schmidt-Boelcke

Production
company

UFA

Distributed by| UFA

Release date

* 14 August 1931 (1931-08-14)

Running time

| 106 minutes
Country| Germany
Language| German

In the Employ of the Secret Service (German: Im Geheimdienst) is a 1931 German drama film directed by Gustav Ucicky and starring Brigitte Helm, Willy Fritsch, and Oskar Homolka.[1] It concerns espionage between Germany and Russia during the First World War. It was made at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin with sets designed by the art directors Robert Herlth and Walter Röhrig. Location shooting took place in Denmark.

## Cast

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* Brigitte Helm as Vera Lanskaja
* Willy Fritsch as Thomas Higgins
* Oskar Homolka as Lanskoi
* Theodor Loos as Dubbin
* Karl Ludwig Diehl as Wasiljeff
* Harry Hardt as Kaulwitz
* Ferdinand Hart as Tomilin
* Tamara Desni as Natascha
* Eduard von Winterstein as Chefen for spionagen
* Friedrich Kayßler as Von Bethmann-Hollweg
* Alfred Beierle as Sokaluk
* Aenne Goerling
* Margarete Schön as Hans hustru
* Ferdinand Bonn as Dr. Kaempff
* Paul Mederow
* Alexander Murski as Ewreinoff
* Georg H. Schnell as Nikolajewski
* Walter Steinbeck

## References

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1. ^ Hake, Sabine (2009). Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim (eds.). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. p. 536\. doi:10.2307/j.ctt1x76dm6. ISBN 978-1571816559. JSTOR j.ctt1x76dm6.

## External links

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* In the Employ of the Secret Service at IMDb

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Films directed by Gustav Ucicky

* Die Pratermizzi (1926)
* Café Elektric (1927)
* A Better Master (1928)
* Restless Hearts (1928)
* The Convict from Istanbul (1929)
* The Flute Concert of Sanssouci (1930)
* Hocuspocus (1930)
* The Temporary Widow (1930)
* Yorck (1931)
* In the Employ of the Secret Service (1931)
* Man Without a Name (1932)
* Morgenrot (1933)
* Refugees (1933)
* At the End of the World (1934)
* The Young Baron Neuhaus (1934)
* Night in May (1934)
* Joan of Arc (1935)
* Under Blazing Heavens (1936)
* Savoy Hotel 217 (1936)
* The Broken Jug (1937)
* Frau Sixta (1938)
* Uproar in Damascus (1939)
* A Mother's Love (1939)
* Der Postmeister (1940)
* Heimkehr (1941)
* Late Love (1943)
* The Heart Must Be Silent (1944)
* After the Storm (1948)
* Cordula (1950)
* The Chaplain of San Lorenzo (1953)
* The Witch (1954)
* A Life for Do (1954)
* The Hunter of Fall (1956)
* The Saint and Her Fool (1957)
* The Priest and the Girl (1958)
* The Girl from the Marsh Croft (1958)
* The Inheritance of Bjorndal (1960)

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