# A Man Astray > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/A_Man_Astray > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/A_Man_Astray.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Man_Astray > Source revision: 1341587938 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) 1940 film A Man Astray Directed by Herbert Selpin Written by Harald G. Petersson Walter Zerlett-Olfenius Based on Percy auf Abwegen by Hans Zehrer Produced by Franz Vogel Starring Hans Albers Charlotte Thiele Hilde Weissner Cinematography Franz Koch Edited by Friedel Buckow Music by Franz Doelle Production company Tobis Film Distributed by Tobis Film Release date 16 February 1940 (1940-02-16) Running time 88 minutes Country Germany Language German ***A Man Astray*** (German: ***Ein Mann auf Abwegen***) is a 1940 German [comedy](/source/Comedy_film) [adventure film](/source/Adventure_film) directed by [Herbert Selpin](/source/Herbert_Selpin) and starring [Hans Albers](/source/Hans_Albers), [Charlotte Thiele](/source/Charlotte_Thiele) and [Hilde Weissner](/source/Hilde_Weissner).[1][2] The film is an adaptation of the 1938 novel *Percy auf Abwegen* by [Hans Zehrer](/source/Hans_Zehrer). The sets were designed by the [art directors](/source/Art_director) [Paul Markwitz](/source/Paul_Markwitz) and [Fritz Maurischat](/source/Fritz_Maurischat). Shooting took place at the [Halensee Studios](/source/Halensee_Studios) in Berlin and the [Bavaria Studios](/source/Bavaria_Studios) in Munich, with additional [location shooting](/source/Location_shooting) around [Lake Starnberg](/source/Lake_Starnberg) in Bavaria. Produced and distributed by [Tobis Film](/source/Tobis_Film), one of [Nazi Germany](/source/Nazi_Germany)'s leading film companies, the film was a financial success. It was remade as the 1963 film *[A Holiday Like Never Before](/source/A_Holiday_Like_Never_Before)* starring [Carlos Thompson](/source/Carlos_Thompson) and [Eva Bartok](/source/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](/source/Geneva) posing as the [chauffeur](/source/Chauffeur) of the singer Lisaweta who he has fallen in love with. ## Cast - [Hans Albers](/source/Hans_Albers) as Percival Pattersson - [Charlotte Thiele](/source/Charlotte_Thiele) as Ingrid Pattersson - [Hilde Weissner](/source/Hilde_Weissner) as Lisaweta Iwanowna - [Gustav Waldau](/source/Gustav_Waldau) as Raymondo Duvallo - [Hilde Sessak](/source/Hilde_Sessak) as Marcella Duvallo - [Werner Fuetterer](/source/Werner_Fuetterer) as Nils Nilsen - [Peter Voß](/source/Peter_Vo%C3%9F) as Sully - [Herbert Hübner](/source/Herbert_H%C3%BCbner) as Meyers - [Werner Scharf](/source/Werner_Scharf) as Strakosch, Lisawetas Sekretär - [Gerhard Dammann](/source/Gerhard_Dammann) as Der Wirt in der Taverne - [Charly Berger](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charly_Berger&action=edit&redlink=1) as Ein Direktionsmitglieder des Patterson-Konzerns - [Fritz Draeger](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fritz_Draeger&action=edit&redlink=1) as Ein Tänzer in der Bar - [Angelo Ferrari](/source/Angelo_Ferrari) as Der italienische Chauffeur - [Harry Hardt](/source/Harry_Hardt) as Empfangschef im Kasino-Restaurant - [Fritz Hinz-Fabricius](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fritz_Hinz-Fabricius&action=edit&redlink=1) as Archibald, Patterssons Diener - Heinz Förster-Ludwig as Der Chauffeur bei Percy Pattersson - Christa Dilthey as Die Sekretärin Nils Nilsens - [Alfred Karen](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alfred_Karen&action=edit&redlink=1) 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](/source/Arthur_Reinhardt) as Ein Polizist - Manfred Meurer as Der geohrfeigte Mitarbeiter Nils Nilsens - [Werner Schott](/source/Werner_Schott) as Carlsson, Patterssons Sekretär - [Friedrich Ulmer](/source/Friedrich_Ulmer) as Der Kommissar - [Aruth Wartan](/source/Aruth_Wartan) as Manula, der Chefkoch im Kasinorestaurant ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Giesen p.146 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Hull p.222 ## 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 - [*A Man Astray*](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031623/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier)) v t e Films directed by Herbert Selpin Antoinette (1932) Chauffeur Antoinette (1932) The Love Contract (1932) Dream of the Rhine (1933) Girls of Today (1933) Between Two Hearts (1934) The Champion of Pontresina (1934) The Riders of German East Africa (1934) An Ideal Husband (1935) The Green Domino (1935, German) The Green Domino (1935, French) Scandal at the Fledermaus (1936) Game on Board (1936) Romance (1936) Alarm in Peking (1937) The Marriage Swindler (1938) I Love You (1938) Sergeant Berry (1938) Water for Canitoga (1939) A Man Astray (1940) Trenck the Pandur (1940) Carl Peters (1941) Secret File W.B.1 (1942) Titanic (1943) This article related to a German film of the 1940s is a stub. 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