{{Short description|1931 film}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = Express 13 | image = Express 13.jpg | caption = | director = Alfred Zeisler | producer = | writer = {{ubl|Rudolph Cartier|Egon Eis}} | narrator = | starring = {{ubl|Charlotte Susa|Heinz Könecke|Fee Malten}} | music = | cinematography = {{ubl|Werner Brandes|Bernhard Wentzel}} | editing = | studio = UFA | distributor = UFA | released = {{Film date|1931|5|14|df=y}} | runtime = 73 minutes | country = Germany | language = German | budget = | gross = }}
'''''Express 13''''' ({{langx|de|'''D-Zug 13 hat Verspätung'''}}) is a 1931 German thriller film directed by Alfred Zeisler and starring Charlotte Susa, Heinz Könecke and Fee Malten.<ref>Paech & Paech p. 223</ref> It was shot at UFA's Babelsberg Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by Willi Herrmann and Herbert Lippschitz.
==Synopsis== Revolutionaries plot to assassinate a president by blowing up the rail tracks in order make his train derail but this is averted just in time. Herbert Schmitt, a passenger on a nearby express train becomes mixed up with the attractive Dorit who wants to use him to help launch a second attempt to kill the president.
==Cast== * Charlotte Susa as Dorit * Heinz Könecke as Herbert Schmitt * Fee Malten as Ella, seine Frau * Ludwig Andersen as Der feine Urban * Alfred Beierle as Caspar * Viktor Schwanneke as Terry
== References == {{reflist}}
== Bibliography == * {{cite book | first1 = Anne | last1 = Paech | first2 = Joachim | last2 = Paech | title = Menschen im Kino: Film und Literatur erzählen | publisher = J.B. Metzler | year = 2000 | isbn = 978-3-476-01747-5 }}
== External links == * {{IMDb title|0129856}}
{{Alfred Zeisler}}
Category:1931 films Category:1931 thriller films Category:German thriller films Category:1931 drama films Category:Films of the Weimar Republic Category:German drama films Category:1931 German-language films Category:Films directed by Alfred Zeisler Category:UFA GmbH films Category:German black-and-white films Category:Films shot at Babelsberg Studios Category:1931 German films Category:German-language thriller films
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