# Mistake of the Heart > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Mistake_of_the_Heart > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Mistake_of_the_Heart.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistake_of_the_Heart > Source revision: 1341584714 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) 1939 film Mistake of the Heart Directed by Bernd Hofmann Alfred Stöger Written by Alexander Lix Walter Forster Bernd Hofmann Produced by Karl Schulz Starring Paul Hartmann Leny Marenbach Hans Söhnker Cinematography Georg Bruckbauer Edited by Carl Forcht Music by Clemens Schmalstich Production company Bavaria Film Distributed by Bavaria Film Release date 29 August 1939 (1939-08-29) Running time 91 minutes Country Germany Language German ***Mistake of the Heart*** (German: ***Irrtum des Herzens***) is a 1939 German [romantic](/source/Romance_film) [drama film](/source/Drama_film) directed by [Bernd Hofmann](/source/Bernd_Hofmann) and [Alfred Stöger](/source/Alfred_St%C3%B6ger) and starring [Paul Hartmann](/source/Paul_Hartmann_(actor)), [Leny Marenbach](/source/Leny_Marenbach) and [Hans Söhnker](/source/Hans_S%C3%B6hnker).[1][2] It was shot at the [Bavaria Studios](/source/Bavaria_Studios) in [Munich](/source/Munich). The film's sets were designed by the [art directors](/source/Art_director) [Robert A. Dietrich](/source/Robert_A._Dietrich) and [Artur Günther](/source/Artur_G%C3%BCnther). It was produced and distributed by [Bavaria Film](/source/Bavaria_Film), premiering at the [Gloria-Palast](/source/Gloria-Palast) in [Berlin](/source/Berlin). ## Cast - [Paul Hartmann](/source/Paul_Hartmann_(actor)) as Professor Reimers - [Leny Marenbach](/source/Leny_Marenbach) as Angelika - [Hans Söhnker](/source/Hans_S%C3%B6hnker) as Flugkapitän van Santen - [Käthe Dorsch](/source/K%C3%A4the_Dorsch) as Oberin - [Grethe Weiser](/source/Grethe_Weiser) as Therese - [Karl Ludwig Schreiber](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karl_Ludwig_Schreiber&action=edit&redlink=1) as Konrad Reimers - [Walter Janssen](/source/Walter_Janssen) as Dr. Erwin Büttner - [Alice Treff](/source/Alice_Treff) as Erika Büttner - [Karl Etlinger](/source/Karl_Etlinger) as Dr. Leitgerber - [Albert Florath](/source/Albert_Florath) as Steinmeyer - [Josefine Dora](/source/Josefine_Dora) as Nikolaus - [Werner Pledath](/source/Werner_Pledath) as Dr. Eickstädt - [Wilhelm Bendow](/source/Wilhelm_Bendow) as Straaßenbahnschaffner - [Wolf Ackva](/source/Wolf_Ackva) as Dr. Smolny - [Reinhold Bernt](/source/Reinhold_Bernt) as Dr. Reithofer - [Arthur Fritz Eugens](/source/Arthur_Fritz_Eugens) as Helmuth - [Willi Schur](/source/Willi_Schur) as Kantinenwirt - [Ewald Wenck](/source/Ewald_Wenck) asKutscher ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Giesen p.147 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Klaus p.105 ## Bibliography - Giesen, Rolf. *The Nosferatu Story: The Seminal Horror Film, Its Predecessors and Its Enduring Legacy*. McFarland, 2019. - Klaus, Ulrich J. *Deutsche Tonfilme: Jahrgang 1939*. Klaus-Archiv, 1988. - Rentschler, Eric. *The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife*. Harvard University Press, 1996. ## External links - [*Mistake of the Heart*](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031496/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier)) This article related to a German film of the 1930s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information. - [v](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:1930s-Germany-film-stub) - [t](/source/Template_talk%3A1930s-Germany-film-stub) - [e](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:1930s-Germany-film-stub) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Mistake of the Heart](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistake_of_the_Heart) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistake_of_the_Heart?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.