Not Afraid of Big Animals

{{Short description|1953 film}} {{Infobox film | name = Not Afraid of Big Animals | image =Not Afraid of Big Animals.jpg | director = [[Ulrich Erfurth]] | producer = {{ubl|[[Walter Koppel]]|[[Gyula Trebitsch]]}} | writer = {{ubl|[[Károly Nóti|Karl Noti]]|[[Louis Agotay]]|[[Just Scheu]]|[[Ernst Nebhut]]}} | starring = {{ubl|[[Heinz Rühmann]]|[[Ingeborg Körner]]|[[Gustav Knuth]]}} | cinematography = [[Albert Benitz]] | editing = [[Hermann Leitner]] | music = [[Michael Jary]] | studio = [[Real Film]] | distributor = Deutsche London Film | country = West Germany | language = [[German language|German]] | runtime = 85 minutes | released = {{Film date|1953|7|31|df=yes}} }} '''''Not Afraid of Big Animals''''' ({{langx|de|'''Keine Angst vor großen Tieren'''}}) is a 1953 West German [[comedy film]] directed by [[Ulrich Erfurth]] and starring [[Heinz Rühmann]], [[Ingeborg Körner]] and [[Gustav Knuth]].<ref>Bock & Bergfelder p. 340</ref> It is a [[circus film]] and a remake of the French film ''{{Interlanguage link|Le Dompteur|fr}}'' (1938). It was shot at the [[Wandsbek Studios]] of [[Real Film]] in [[Hamburg]]. The film's sets were designed by the [[art director]]s [[Albrecht Becker]] and [[Herbert Kirchhoff]].

== Main cast == * [[Heinz Rühmann]] as Emil Keller * [[Ingeborg Körner]] as Anni * [[Gustav Knuth]] as Schimmel * [[Maria Paudler]] as Frau Müller * [[Gisela Trowe]] as Emma * [[Werner Fuetterer]] as Bollmann * [[Jakob Tiedtke]] as Zirkusdirektor * [[Erich Ponto]] as {{Ill|Polizeikommissar|de}} * [[Josef Sieber]] as Polizist * [[Willy Maertens]] as Lawyer Immelmann * [[Albert Florath]] as Ziegler * [[Margarete Slezak]] as Frau Richter * [[Ursula Herking]] as Dame in Straßenbahn * [[Hubert von Meyerinck]] as Kunstreiter * [[Bruno Fritz]] as Herr Richter * [[Beppo Brem]] as Schornsteinfeger / Chimney sweeper * {{Ill|Carl Napp|de}} as Herr mit Koffer * [[Wolfgang Neuss]] as Zauberkünstler * [[Carl Voscherau]] as Mann in Straßenbahn * [[Josef Dahmen]] as Schwerer Junge * [[Ruth Stephan]] as Partnerin des Zauberkünstlers * [[Max Schmeling]] as Zuschauer

== References == {{reflist}}

==Bibliography== * Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009.

== External links == *{{IMDb title|0045956}}

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