The Sinful Border

{{Short description|1951 film directed by Robert A. Stemmle}} {{Infobox film | name = The Sinful Border | image =File:The Sinful Border.jpg | caption = | director = [[Robert A. Stemmle]] | writer = {{ubl|[[Artur Brauner]]|[[Gerda Corbett]]|[[Marta Moyland]]|Robert A. Stemmle}} | producer = Artur Brauner | starring = {{ubl|[[Dieter Borsche]]|[[Inge Egger]]|[[Peter Mosbacher]]|[[Jan Hendriks]]}} | narrator = | cinematography = [[Igor Oberberg]] | editing = [[Walter Wischniewsky]] | music = [[Herbert Trantow]] | studio = [[CCC Films]] | distributor =Prisma-Filmverleih | released = {{Film date|1951|11|08|df=y}} | runtime = 87 minutes | country = West Germany | language = [[German language|German]] | budget = | gross = }} '''''The Sinful Border''''' ({{langx|de|'''Sündige Grenze'''}}) is a 1951 West German [[crime film]] directed by [[Robert A. Stemmle]] and starring [[Dieter Borsche]], [[Inge Egger]] and [[Peter Mosbacher]]. [[Jan Hendriks]] won the [[German Film Award]] as Best Newcomer. It focuses on the smuggling of [[coffee]], at the time an expensive luxury, into Germany.<ref>Baer p.106</ref> It is also known by the [[alternative title]] of '''''Illegal Border'''''.

It was shot at the [[Spandau Studios]] in [[Berlin]] and [[location shooting|on location]] in the [[Harz Mountains]]. The film's sets were designed by the [[art director]]s [[Mathias Matthies]] and [[Ellen Schmidt]].

==Cast== * [[Dieter Borsche]] as Hans Fischer * [[Inge Egger]] as Marianne Mertens * [[Peter Mosbacher]] as Zollkommissar Dietrich * [[Jan Hendriks]] as Jan Krapp * [[Julia Fjorsen]] as Cilly * [[Gisela von Collande]] as Mutter Mertens * [[Alice Treff]] as Mutter Walters * [[Ilse Furstenberg]] * [[Eva Bubat]] * [[Maria Secher]] * [[Hendrikje Simonis]] * [[Ernst Schroder (actor)|Ernst Schroder]] as Hugo Mielke * [[Adolf Dell]] as Vater Mertens * [[Adalbert Koffler]] * [[Hans Dieter Zeidler]] * [[Arthur Mainzer]] * [[Hans Halden]] * [[Erich Dunskus]] * [[Cornelia Froboess]] as Bertha * [[Wolfgang Jansen]] as Heinz Mertens

== References == {{reflist}}

==Bibliography== * Baer, Hester. ''Dismantling the Dream Factory: Gender, German Cinema, and the Postwar Quest for a New Film Language''. Berghahn Books, 2012.

== External links == * {{IMDb title|0044099}}

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