Love Is Duty Free

{{short description|1941 film}} {{use dmy dates|date=March 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = Love is Duty Free | image = | caption = | director = [[E. W. Emo]] | producer = | writer = [[Fritz Koselka]] | narrator = | starring = {{ubl|[[Hans Moser (actor)|Hans Moser]]|{{ill|Susi Peter|de}}|[[Theodor Danegger]]|[[Hans Olden]]}} | music = {{ubl|[[Hanns Elin]]|[[Max Niederberger]]}} | cinematography = [[Georg Bruckbauer]] | editing = | studio = [[Wien-Film]] | distributor = | released = {{film date|1941|4|17|df=y}} | runtime = | country = Germany | language = [[German language|German]] | budget = | gross = }} '''''Love is Duty Free''''' ({{langx|de|'''Liebe ist zollfrei'''}}) is a 1941 [[comedy film]] directed by [[E. W. Emo]] and starring [[Hans Moser (actor)|Hans Moser]], [[Susi Peter]], and [[Theodor Danegger]].{{sfn|Hake|p=252}} The film was made by [[Wien-Film]], a Vienna-based company set up after Austria had been incorporated into [[Greater Germanic Reich|Greater Germany]] following the 1938 [[Anschluss]]. The film was intended to mock the [[First Austrian Republic]] and its democratic system of government as incompetent.

==Synopsis== The financially hard-pressed Austrian government have arranged a secret deal with the Swiss, but an officious Austrian customs officer is unaware of this and arrests the Swiss representatives in the belief that they are wanted criminals.

==Cast== {{cast listing| * [[Hans Moser (actor)|Hans Moser]] as Laurenz Hasenhüttl * {{ill|Susi Peter|de}} as Hasenhüttls Tochter * [[Theodor Danegger]] as Schweizer Gesandter * [[Hans Olden]] as Finanzminister * [[Maria Eis]] as Frau des Finanzminister * [[Else Elster]] as Geliebte des Finanzministers * [[Hans Unterkircher]] as Minister Bouvier * [[Oskar Sima]] as Bundeskanzler * {{ill|Heinrich Heilinger|de}} as Ministerialrat * [[Erik Frey]] as Ministerialsekretär * [[Fritz Imhoff]] as Pförtner * [[Josef Egger]] as Amtsdiener * [[Alfred Neugebauer]] as Amerikanischer Millionär * [[Karl Skraup]] as Chefredakteur Grimsky * [[Gisa Wurm]] as Stubenmädchen * [[Robert Freitag]] as Schweizer Zollbeamter * [[Hermann Erhardt]] as Polizeiwachtmeister * [[Josef Eichheim]] as Wirt in Feldkirch * [[Gertrud Wolle]] as Englische Touristin * [[Karl Kneidinger]] }}

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== Bibliography == * {{cite book | ref = {{sfnref|Hake}} | last = Hake | first = Sabine | title = Popular Cinema of the Third Reich | publisher = University of Texas Press | year = 2001 | location = Austin | isbn = 978-0-292-73458-6 }}

== External links == * {{IMDb title|0033831}}

[[Category:1941 films]] [[Category:Films of Nazi Germany]] [[Category:German comedy films]] [[Category:1941 comedy films]] [[Category:1941 German-language films]] [[Category:Films directed by E. W. Emo]] [[Category:Films set in the 1930s]] [[Category:Films set in Austria]] [[Category:Nazi propaganda films]] [[Category:German black-and-white films]] [[Category:1941 German films]] [[Category:German-language comedy films]]