The Old Boss

{{short description|1942 film}} {{Infobox film | name =The Old Boss | image =File:The Old Boss.jpeg | caption = | director =[[Peter Paul Brauer]] | producer = [[Alf Teichs]] <br> [[Walter Tost]] | writer = [[Eberhard Keindorff]] <br> [[Wolf Neumeister]] | based_on = ''Seine Majestät Gustav Krause'' by [[Erich Kästner]] | starring =[[Otto Wernicke]] <br> [[Hildegard Grethe]] <br> [[Werner Fuetterer]] | music = [[Hans Ebert]] | cinematography = [[Robert Baberske]] | editing = [[Ira Oberberg]] | studio = [[Terra Film]] | distributor =Deutsche Filmvertriebs | released ={{film date|1942|11|27|df=y}} | runtime = 83 minutes | country = Germany | language = [[German language|German]] | budget = | gross = }} '''''The Old Boss''''' (German: '''''Der Seniorchef''''') is a 1942 German [[comedy film]] directed by [[Peter Paul Brauer]] and starring [[Otto Wernicke]], [[Hildegard Grethe]] and [[Werner Fuetterer]].<ref>Bock & Bergfelder p.236</ref><ref>Moeller p.112</ref> It was shot at the [[Tempelhof Studios]] in [[Berlin]] and [[location shooting|on location]] around [[Potsdam]] and [[Bad Wiessee]] in [[Bavaria]]. The film's sets were designed by the [[art director]]s Gerhard Ladner and [[Max Mellin]].<ref>https://www.filmportal.de/film/der-seniorchef_6cb32889060646bcb0074e635b67d493</ref>

==Cast== * [[Otto Wernicke]] as Georg von Schulte, Pferdezüchter * [[Hildegard Grethe]] as Martha von Schulte * [[Werner Fuetterer]] as Konrad von Schulte * [[Heinz Welzel]] as Robert von Schulte * [[Rolf Weih]] as Hermann von Schulte * [[Karin Himboldt]] as Helene von Schulte * [[Max Gülstorff]] as Ludwig Goerner * [[Helmi Mareich]] as Margot Winkelmann * [[Helmuth Helsig]] as Fritz Bodenstedt * [[Jeanette Bethge]] as Emma * [[Maria Litto]] as Lisbeth * [[Leopold von Ledebur]] as Dr. Schneider * [[Ernst Stimmel]] as Professor im Sanatorium * [[Hilde Jansen]] as Hilde, Krankenschwester * [[Lotte Rausch]] as Grete Nowak * [[Karl Hannemann]] as Paul, Stallknecht * [[Otto Braml]] as Oskar, Stallknecht * [[Gunnar Möller]] as Willy, Stalljunge * [[Günther Ballier]] as Loistelli * [[Albert Florath]] as Pietsch, Droschkenkutscher * [[Fanny Schrock-Normann]] as Frau Pietsch * [[Oskar Höcker (actor)|Oskar Höcker]] as Wendland, Pferdehändler * [[Leo Peukert]] as Karsten, Pferdehändler

== References == {{reflist}}

== Bibliography == * Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009. * Moeller, Felix. ''The Film Minister: Goebbels and the Cinema in the Third Reich''. Edition Axel Menges, 2000.

== External links == * {{IMDb title|0158932}}

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