A Man Astray

{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2023}} {{short description|1940 film}} {{Infobox film | name = A Man Astray | image =File:A Man Astray.jpg | caption = | director = [[Herbert Selpin]] | producer = [[Franz Vogel]] | based_on = ''Percy auf Abwegen'' by [[Hans Zehrer]] | writer = [[Harald G. Petersson]] <br> [[Walter Zerlett-Olfenius]] | narrator = | starring =[[Hans Albers]] <br> [[Charlotte Thiele]] <br> [[Hilde Weissner]] | music = [[Franz Doelle]] | cinematography = [[Franz Koch (cinematographer)|Franz Koch]] | editing = [[Friedel Buckow]] | studio = [[Tobis Film]] | distributor = Tobis Film | released ={{Film date|1940|02|16|df=yes}} | runtime = 88 minutes | country = Germany | language = German | budget = | gross = }} '''''A Man Astray''''' (German: '''''Ein Mann auf Abwegen''''') is a 1940 German [[comedy film|comedy]] [[adventure film]] directed by [[Herbert Selpin]] and starring [[Hans Albers]], [[Charlotte Thiele]] and [[Hilde Weissner]].<ref>Giesen p.146</ref><ref>Hull p.222</ref> The film is an adaptation of the 1938 novel ''Percy auf Abwegen'' by [[Hans Zehrer]]. The sets were designed by the [[art director]]s [[Paul Markwitz]] and [[Fritz Maurischat]]. Shooting took place at the [[Halensee Studios]] in Berlin and the [[Bavaria Studios]] in Munich, with additional [[location shooting]] around [[Lake Starnberg]] in Bavaria. Produced and distributed by [[Tobis Film]], one of [[Nazi Germany]]'s leading film companies, the film was a financial success. It was remade as the 1963 film ''[[A Holiday Like Never Before]]'' starring [[Carlos Thompson]] and [[Eva Bartok]].

==Synopsis== Percival Pattersson, a wealthy Swedish industrialist, disappears one morning without warning, and police suspect a crime. However, his daughter Ingrid and a journalist both suspect he has deliberately vanished and set out to track him down. Pattersson has in fact been laying low incognito but when his daughter approaches, he flees to [[Geneva]] posing as the [[chauffeur]] of the singer Lisaweta who he has fallen in love with.

==Cast== * [[Hans Albers]] as Percival Pattersson * [[Charlotte Thiele]] as Ingrid Pattersson * [[Hilde Weissner]] as Lisaweta Iwanowna * [[Gustav Waldau]] as Raymondo Duvallo * [[Hilde Sessak]] as Marcella Duvallo * [[Werner Fuetterer]] as Nils Nilsen * [[Peter Voß]] as Sully * [[Herbert Hübner]] as Meyers * [[Werner Scharf]] as Strakosch, Lisawetas Sekretär * [[Gerhard Dammann]] as Der Wirt in der Taverne * [[Charly Berger]] as Ein Direktionsmitglieder des Patterson-Konzerns * [[Fritz Draeger]] as Ein Tänzer in der Bar * [[Angelo Ferrari]] as Der italienische Chauffeur * [[Harry Hardt]] as Empfangschef im Kasino-Restaurant * [[Fritz Hinz-Fabricius]] as Archibald, Patterssons Diener * Heinz Förster-Ludwig as Der Chauffeur bei Percy Pattersson * Christa Dilthey as Die Sekretärin Nils Nilsens * [[Alfred Karen]] as Ein Direktionsmitglied des Patterson-Konzerns * Karl Junge-Swinburne as Der Schneidermeister der Chauffeuruniform * Egon Stief as Ein Gast am Eingang der Taverne * Theodor Thony as Ein Völkerbundabgeordneter * Gustl Kreusch as Renée, Köchin * [[Arthur Reinhardt]] as Ein Polizist * Manfred Meurer as Der geohrfeigte Mitarbeiter Nils Nilsens * [[Werner Schott]] as Carlsson, Patterssons Sekretär * [[Friedrich Ulmer]] as Der Kommissar * [[Aruth Wartan]] as Manula, der Chefkoch im Kasinorestaurant

== References == {{reflist}}

== Bibliography == * Giesen, Rolf. ''The Nosferatu Story: The Seminal Horror Film, Its Predecessors and Its Enduring Legacy''. McFarland, 2019. *Hull, David Stewart. ''Film in the Third Reich: Art and Propaganda in Nazi Germany'', Simon & Schuster, 1973. * Rentschler, Eric. ''The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife''. Harvard University Press, 1996.

== External links == * {{IMDb title|0031623}}

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