# Not Afraid of Big Animals > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Not_Afraid_of_Big_Animals > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Not_Afraid_of_Big_Animals.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Afraid_of_Big_Animals > Source revision: 1341595336 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) 1953 film Not Afraid of Big Animals Directed by Ulrich Erfurth Written by Karl Noti Louis Agotay Just Scheu Ernst Nebhut Produced by Walter Koppel Gyula Trebitsch Starring Heinz Rühmann Ingeborg Körner Gustav Knuth Cinematography Albert Benitz Edited by Hermann Leitner Music by Michael Jary Production company Real Film Distributed by Deutsche London Film Release date 31 July 1953 (1953-07-31) Running time 85 minutes Country West Germany Language German ***Not Afraid of Big Animals*** ([German](/source/German_language): ***Keine Angst vor großen Tieren***) is a 1953 West German [comedy film](/source/Comedy_film) directed by [Ulrich Erfurth](/source/Ulrich_Erfurth) and starring [Heinz Rühmann](/source/Heinz_R%C3%BChmann), [Ingeborg Körner](/source/Ingeborg_K%C3%B6rner) and [Gustav Knuth](/source/Gustav_Knuth).[1] It is a [circus film](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Circus_film&action=edit&redlink=1) and a remake of the French film *[Le Dompteur](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Le_Dompteur&action=edit&redlink=1) [[fr](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Dompteur)]* (1938). It was shot at the [Wandsbek Studios](/source/Wandsbek_Studios) of [Real Film](/source/Real_Film) in [Hamburg](/source/Hamburg). The film's sets were designed by the [art directors](/source/Art_director) [Albrecht Becker](/source/Albrecht_Becker) and [Herbert Kirchhoff](/source/Herbert_Kirchhoff). ## Main cast - [Heinz Rühmann](/source/Heinz_R%C3%BChmann) as Emil Keller - [Ingeborg Körner](/source/Ingeborg_K%C3%B6rner) as Anni - [Gustav Knuth](/source/Gustav_Knuth) as Schimmel - [Maria Paudler](/source/Maria_Paudler) as Frau Müller - [Gisela Trowe](/source/Gisela_Trowe) as Emma - [Werner Fuetterer](/source/Werner_Fuetterer) as Bollmann - [Jakob Tiedtke](/source/Jakob_Tiedtke) as Zirkusdirektor - [Erich Ponto](/source/Erich_Ponto) as [Polizeikommissar](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Polizeikommissar&action=edit&redlink=1) [[de](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polizeikommissar)] - [Josef Sieber](/source/Josef_Sieber) as Polizist - [Willy Maertens](/source/Willy_Maertens) as Lawyer Immelmann - [Albert Florath](/source/Albert_Florath) as Ziegler - [Margarete Slezak](/source/Margarete_Slezak) as Frau Richter - [Ursula Herking](/source/Ursula_Herking) as Dame in Straßenbahn - [Hubert von Meyerinck](/source/Hubert_von_Meyerinck) as Kunstreiter - [Bruno Fritz](/source/Bruno_Fritz) as Herr Richter - [Beppo Brem](/source/Beppo_Brem) as Schornsteinfeger / Chimney sweeper - [Carl Napp](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carl_Napp&action=edit&redlink=1) [[de](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Napp)] as Herr mit Koffer - [Wolfgang Neuss](/source/Wolfgang_Neuss) as Zauberkünstler - [Carl Voscherau](/source/Carl_Voscherau) as Mann in Straßenbahn - [Josef Dahmen](/source/Josef_Dahmen) as Schwerer Junge - [Ruth Stephan](/source/Ruth_Stephan) as Partnerin des Zauberkünstlers - [Max Schmeling](/source/Max_Schmeling) as Zuschauer ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Bock & Bergfelder p. 340 ## Bibliography - Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. *The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema*. Berghahn Books, 2009. ## External links - [*Not Afraid of Big Animals*](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045956/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier)) This article related to a German comedy film of the 1950s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information. - [v](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:1950s-Germany-comedy-film-stub) - [t](/source/Template_talk%3A1950s-Germany-comedy-film-stub) - [e](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:1950s-Germany-comedy-film-stub) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Not Afraid of Big Animals](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Afraid_of_Big_Animals) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Afraid_of_Big_Animals?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.