# The Cruel Mistress > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/The_Cruel_Mistress > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/The_Cruel_Mistress.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cruel_Mistress > Source revision: 1342430837 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) 1932 film by Carl Lamac The Cruel Mistress Directed by Carl Lamac Written by Hans H. Zerlett Walter Wassermann Produced by Anatol Potock Carl Lamac Anny Ondra Starring Anny Ondra Fritz Rasp Lina Woiwode Cinematography Otto Heller Josef Wirsching Ernst Zahn Edited by Ella Ensink Music by Rolf Marbot Bert Reisfeld Production companies Ondra-Lamac-Film Lothar Stark-Film Distributed by Hugo Engel-Filmgesellschaft Release date 12 July 1932 (1932-07-12) Running time 78 minutes Countries Austria Germany Language German ***The Cruel Mistress*** ([German](/source/German_language): ***Die grausame Freundin***) is a 1932 Austrian-German [comedy film](/source/Comedy_film) directed by [Carl Lamac](/source/Carl_Lamac) and starring [Anny Ondra](/source/Anny_Ondra), [Fritz Rasp](/source/Fritz_Rasp) and [Lina Woiwode](/source/Lina_Woiwode).[1] A separate French-language version *[Should We Wed Them?](/source/Should_We_Wed_Them%3F)* was also released. The film's sets were designed by the [art directors](/source/Art_director) [Otto Erdmann](/source/Otto_Erdmann_(art_director)) and [Hans Sohnle](/source/Hans_Sohnle). ## Synopsis Professor Bock, a quarrelsome [astronomer](/source/Astronomer), has long had a falling out with his brother, who went to America after marrying a [circus performer](/source/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](/source/Anny_Ondra) as Welgunda - [Fritz Rasp](/source/Fritz_Rasp) as Professor Bock - [Lina Woiwode](/source/Lina_Woiwode) as Frau Bock - [Werner Fuetterer](/source/Werner_Fuetterer) as Jim Bock - [Olga Limburg](/source/Olga_Limburg) as Jim Bocks Mutter - [Ernst Arndt](/source/Ernst_Arndt_(actor)) as Professor Bierbrot - [Carl Goetz](/source/Carl_Goetz) as Zirkusdirektor - [Karl Forest](/source/Karl_Forest) as Schulinspektor - [Dorothy Poole](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dorothy_Poole&action=edit&redlink=1) as Sängerin - [Gustav Werner](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gustav_Werner&action=edit&redlink=1) as Hoteldirektor - [Hugo Thimig](/source/Hugo_Thimig) ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** von Dassanowsky p.49 ## Bibliography - Robert von Dassanowsky. *Austrian Cinema: A History*. McFarland, 2005. ## External links - [*The Cruel Mistress*](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0257731/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier)) v t e Films directed by Karel Lamač Gilly in Prague for the First Time (1920) White Paradise (1924) Karel Havlíček Borovský (1925) The Lantern (1925) The Countess from Podskalí (1926) Never the Twain (1926) Eve's Daughters (1928) Suzy Saxophone (1928) The First Kiss (1928) The Girl with the Whip (1929) Sin of a Beautiful Woman (1929) Sinful and Sweet (1929) The Caviar Princess (1930) Fairground People (1930) Imperial and Royal Field Marshal (1930) Him and His Sister (1931) The Squeaker (1931) Business Under Distress (1931) Die Fledermaus (1931) The Cruel Mistress (1932) The Undertaker (1932) A Night in Paradise (1932) Lelíček in the Services of Sherlock Holmes (1932) Kiki (1932) Should We Wed Them? (1932) Wehe, wenn er losgelassen (1932) Mamsell Nitouche (1932) The Ringer (1932) The Love Hotel (1933) Daughter of the Regiment (1933) Little Dorrit (1934) Nezlobte dědečka (1934) The Switched Bride (1934) The Brenken Case (1934) Polish Blood (1934) Frasquita (1934) I Love All the Women (1935) Knockout (1935) The Young Count (1935) The White Horse Inn (1935) The Bashful Casanova (1936) The Postman from Longjumeau (1936) Where the Lark Sings (1936) Florentine (1937) A Girl from the Chorus (1937) The Hound of the Baskervilles (1937) Cause for Divorce (1937) The Vagabonds (1937) The Lantern (1938) Ducháček Will Fix It (1938) Place de la Concorde (1939) Schweik's New Adventures (1943) They Met in the Dark (1943) It Happened One Sunday (1944) One Night at the Tabarin (1947) The Thief of Bagdad (1952) This article related to an Austrian film of the 1930s is a stub. 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