No Money Needed

{{Short description|1932 film directed by Carl Boese}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}} {{Infobox film |name = No Money Needed |image = No Money Needed.jpg |caption = |native_name = {{Infobox name module|de|Man braucht kein Geld}} |director = [[Carl Boese]] |producer = [[Arnold Pressburger]] |writer = {{ubl|Ferdinand Alternkirch (play)|[[Károly Nóti]]|[[Hans Wilhelm (screenwriter)|Hans Wilhelm]]}} |starring = {{ubl|[[Hedy Lamarr]]|[[Heinz Rühmann]]|[[Hans Moser (actor)|Hans Moser]]|[[Ida Wüst]]}} |music = [[Artur Guttmann]] |editing = Geza Pollatschik |cinematography = {{ubl|[[Willy Goldberger]]|Karl Sander}} |studio = [[Cine-Allianz Tonfilm]] |distributor = [[Bavaria Film]] |released = {{Film date|1932|2|5|df=yes}} |runtime = 92 minutes |country = Germany |language = German }} '''''No Money Needed''''' ({{langx|de|'''Man braucht kein Geld'''}}) is a 1932 [[Cinema of Germany|German]] [[comedy film]] directed by [[Carl Boese]] and starring [[Hedy Lamarr]], [[Heinz Rühmann]], and [[Hans Moser (actor)|Hans Moser]]. It was shot at the [[Babelsberg Studios]] in [[Berlin]] with sets designed by the [[art director]] [[Julius von Borsody]]. It premiered on 5 February 1932.<ref>{{cite book|author-link=William Grange|last=Grange|first=William|title=Cultural Chronicle of the Weimar Republic|publisher=Scarecrow Press|year=2008|location=Lanham, MD|page=381|isbn=081085967X|lccn=2008008116}}</ref> It was based on a play by [[Ferdinand Alternkirch]] and was shot during November 1931.<ref>{{cite book|last=Barton|first=Ruth|title=Hedy Lamarr: The Most Beautiful Woman in Film|publisher=[[University Press of Kentucky]]|series=Screen Classics|year=2010|page=25|asin=B0078XFQ6U|isbn=0813136547|jstor=j.ctt2jcvm4|lccn=2010013914}}</ref> A French remake ({{lang|fr|Pas besoin d'argent}}) and an Italian remake ({{lang|it|Non c'è bisogno di denaro}}) were made in 1933. Boese himself remade the story in 1953 under the title ''[[The Uncle from America]]''.

==Synopsis== A virtually [[bankrupt]] businessman in a small town manages to convince people that his newly arrived cousin, who is equally impoverished, is a [[millionaire]].

==Cast== *[[Hedy Lamarr]] as Käthe Brandt *[[Heinz Rühmann]] as Heinz Schmidt *[[Hans Moser (actor)|Hans Moser]] as Thomas Theodor Hoffmann *[[Ida Wüst]] as Frau Brandt *[[Hans Junkermann (actor)|Hans Junkermann]] as Herrmann Brandt *[[Kurt Gerron]] as Bank President Binder *[[Paul Henckels]] as The Mayor *[[Hans Hermann Schaufuß]] as Hotelier *[[Albert Florath]] as head of savings banks *[[Fritz Odemar]] as Schröder *[[Gerhard Dammann]] as husband *[[Hugo Fischer-Köppe]] *[[Ludwig Stössel]] *[[Siegfried Berisch]] *[[Wolfgang von Schwindt]] *[[Heinrich Schroth]] *[[Karl Hannemann]] *[[Leopold von Ledebur]]

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *{{IMDb title|0022115}}

[[Category:Films of the Weimar Republic]] [[Category:1932 comedy films]] [[Category:German comedy films]] [[Category:Films directed by Carl Boese]] [[Category:German films based on plays]] [[Category:Films produced by Arnold Pressburger]] [[Category:German black-and-white films]] [[Category:Bavaria Film films]] [[Category:Cine-Allianz films]] [[Category:1932 German-language films]] [[Category:Films shot at Babelsberg Studios]] [[Category:1932 German films]] [[Category:Films scored by Artur Guttmann]] [[Category:German-language comedy films]]