The Cruel Mistress

{{Short description|1932 film by Carl Lamac}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = The Cruel Mistress | image = The Cruel Mistress.jpg | caption = | director = [[Carl Lamac]] | producer = {{ubl|[[Anatol Potock ]]|Carl Lamac|Anny Ondra}} | writer = {{ubl|[[Hans H. Zerlett]]|[[Walter Wassermann]]}} | narrator = | starring = {{ubl|[[Anny Ondra]]|[[Fritz Rasp]]|[[Lina Woiwode]]}} | music = {{ubl|[[Rolf Marbot ]]|[[Bert Reisfeld]]}} | cinematography = {{ubl|[[Otto Heller]]|[[Josef Wirsching]]|[[Ernst Zahn (cinematographer)|Ernst Zahn]]}} | editing = [[Ella Ensink]] | studio = {{ubl|Ondra-Lamac-Film|Lothar Stark-Film}} | distributor = Hugo Engel-Filmgesellschaft | released = {{Film date|1932|07|12|df=y}} | runtime = 78 minutes | country = {{ubl|Austria|Germany}} | language = [[German language|German]] | budget = | gross = }} '''''The Cruel Mistress''''' ({{langx|de|'''Die grausame Freundin'''}}) is a 1932 Austrian-German [[comedy film]] directed by [[Carl Lamac]] and starring [[Anny Ondra]], [[Fritz Rasp]] and [[Lina Woiwode]].<ref>von Dassanowsky p.49</ref> A separate French-language version ''[[Should We Wed Them?]]'' was also released. The film's sets were designed by the [[art director]]s [[Otto Erdmann (art director)|Otto Erdmann]] and [[Hans Sohnle]].

==Synopsis== Professor Bock, a quarrelsome [[astronomer]], has long had a falling out with his brother, who went to America after marrying a [[circus performer]]. When his brother's widow and her son Jim arrive, a romance blossoms between the young man and the professor's daughter Welgunda.

==Cast== * [[Anny Ondra]] as Welgunda * [[Fritz Rasp]] as Professor Bock * [[Lina Woiwode]] as Frau Bock * [[Werner Fuetterer]] as Jim Bock * [[Olga Limburg]] as Jim Bocks Mutter * [[Ernst Arndt (actor)|Ernst Arndt]] as Professor Bierbrot * [[Carl Goetz]] as Zirkusdirektor * [[Karl Forest]] as Schulinspektor * [[Dorothy Poole]] as Sängerin * [[Gustav Werner]] as Hoteldirektor * [[Hugo Thimig]]

== References == <references/>

== Bibliography == * Robert von Dassanowsky. ''Austrian Cinema: A History''. McFarland, 2005.

== External links == * {{IMDb title|0257731}}

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