The Woman at the Crossroads (1938 film)

1938 film

The Woman at the Crossroads

Directed by| Josef von Báky
Written by| Alice Lyttkens (novel)
Thea von Harbou
Starring| Ewald Balser
Magda Schneider
Karin Hardt
Hans Söhnker
Cinematography| István Eiben
Edited by| Wolfgang Becker
Music by| Viktor Vaszy

Production
companies

Pictura-Film
Hunnia Filmstúdió

Distributed by| Terra Film

Release date

* 26 August 1938 (1938-08-26)

Running time

| 95 minutes
Country| Nazi Germany
Language| German

The Woman at the Crossroads (German: Die Frau am Scheidewege) is a 1938 German drama film directed by Josef von Báky and starring Ewald Balser, Magda Schneider and Karin Hardt.[1] It was made partly at the Hunnia Film Studios in Budapest. The film's sets were designed by the art director Emil Hasler.

## Synopsis[edit]

After a failed marriage to an artist, a young female doctor returns to her rightful place in the hospital.

## Cast[edit]

* Ewald Balser as Prof. Henrici
* Magda Schneider as Dr.med. Hanna Weigand
* Karin Hardt as Elinor Weigand
* Hans Söhnker as Fred Moebius
* Ilse Furstenberg as Frau Pawlowski
* Paul Westermeier as Johann
* Georg Alexander as Herrenguth
* Willi Schur as Pawlowski - Arbeiter
* Ernst Waldow as Von Dieter
* Margarete Schön as Oberschwester Hermine
* Peter Elsholtz as Brandes
* Gustav Püttjer as Schaffner
* Eduard Wenck as Patient
* Hilde Maroff as Patientin
* Vera Hartegg as Empfangsschwester
* Peter Bosse as Pawlowskis Sohn
* Lidia Beöthy as Nachtschwester
* Rudolf Schündler as Graup

## References[edit]

1. ^ Hake p.199

## Bibliography[edit]

* Hake, Sabine. Popular Cinema of the Third Reich. University of Texas Press, 2001.

## External links[edit]

* The Woman at the Crossroads at IMDb

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The films of Josef von Báky

* The Woman at the Crossroads (1938)
* The Great and the Little Love (1938)
* Her First Experience (1939)
* Stars of Variety (1939)
* Münchhausen (1943)
* Via Mala (1945)
* And the Heavens Above Us (1947)
* The Last Illusion (1949)
* Two Times Lotte (1950)
* Dreaming Lips (1953)
* Diary of a Married Woman (1953)
* Hotel Adlon (1955)
* Dunja (1955)
* The Girl and the Legend (1957)
* Precocious Youth (1957)
* Confess, Doctor Corda (1958)
* Stefanie (1958)
* The Man Who Sold Himself (1959)
* Marili (1959)
* The Ideal Woman (1959)
* Storm in a Water Glass (1960)
* The Strange Countess (1961)

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Thea von Harbou

* List of works

Films directed|

* Elisabeth and the Fool (1934)
* Hanneles Himmelfahrt (1934)

Films written|

* The Legend of Holy Simplicity (1920)
* The Wandering Image (1920)
* Destiny (1921)
* Four Around a Woman (1921)
* The Indian Tomb (1921)
* The Women of Gnadenstein (1921)
* The Burning Soil (1922)
* Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (1922)
* Phantom (1922)
* The Expulsion (1923)
* The Stone Rider (1923)
* Princess Suwarin (1923)
* The Grand Duke's Finances (1924)
* Die Nibelungen (1924)
* Michael (1924)
* Chronicles of the Gray House (1925)
* Metropolis (1927)
* Spione (1928)
* Woman in the Moon (1929)
* M (1931)
* The First Right of the Child (1932)
* The Marathon Runner (1933)
* The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
* The Old and the Young King (1934)
* Princess Turandot (1934)
* What Am I Without You (1934)
* Turandot, Princess of China (1935)
* The Old and the Young King (1935)
* An Ideal Husband (1935)
* Escapade (1936)
* The Impossible Woman (1936)
* A Woman of No Importance (1936)
* The Broken Jug (1937)
* Don't Promise Me Anything (1937)
* Mother Song (1937)
* The Ruler (1937)
* Covered Tracks (1938)
* The Woman at the Crossroads (1938)
* Hurrah! I'm a Father (1939)
* Stars of Variety (1939)
* Clarissa (1941)
* With the Eyes of a Woman (1942)
* Maria Malibran (1943)
* A Wife for Three Days (1944)
* Via Mala (1945)
* Journey to Happiness (1948)
* A Day Will Come (1950)
* Dr. Holl (1951)
* Your Heart Is My Homeland (1953)

Novels written|

* The Indian Tomb (1918)
* Metropolis (1925)
* The Rocket to the Moon (1928)

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