# The Sinful Border

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1951 film directed by Robert A. Stemmle

The Sinful Border Directed by Robert A. Stemmle Written by Artur Brauner Gerda Corbett Marta Moyland Robert A. Stemmle Produced by Artur Brauner Starring Dieter Borsche Inge Egger Peter Mosbacher Jan Hendriks Cinematography Igor Oberberg Edited by Walter Wischniewsky Music by Herbert Trantow Production company CCC Films Distributed by Prisma-Filmverleih Release date 8 November 1951 (1951-11-08) Running time 87 minutes Country West Germany Language German

***The Sinful Border*** ([German](/source/German_language): ***Sündige Grenze***) is a 1951 West German [crime film](/source/Crime_film) directed by [Robert A. Stemmle](/source/Robert_A._Stemmle) and starring [Dieter Borsche](/source/Dieter_Borsche), [Inge Egger](/source/Inge_Egger) and [Peter Mosbacher](/source/Peter_Mosbacher). [Jan Hendriks](/source/Jan_Hendriks) won the [German Film Award](/source/German_Film_Award) as Best Newcomer. It focuses on the smuggling of [coffee](/source/Coffee), at the time an expensive luxury, into Germany.[1] It is also known by the [alternative title](/source/Alternative_title) of ***Illegal Border***.

It was shot at the [Spandau Studios](/source/Spandau_Studios) in [Berlin](/source/Berlin) and [on location](/source/Location_shooting) in the [Harz Mountains](/source/Harz_Mountains). The film's sets were designed by the [art directors](/source/Art_director) [Mathias Matthies](/source/Mathias_Matthies) and [Ellen Schmidt](/source/Ellen_Schmidt).

## Cast

- [Dieter Borsche](/source/Dieter_Borsche) as Hans Fischer

- [Inge Egger](/source/Inge_Egger) as Marianne Mertens

- [Peter Mosbacher](/source/Peter_Mosbacher) as Zollkommissar Dietrich

- [Jan Hendriks](/source/Jan_Hendriks) as Jan Krapp

- [Julia Fjorsen](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Julia_Fjorsen&action=edit&redlink=1) as Cilly

- [Gisela von Collande](/source/Gisela_von_Collande) as Mutter Mertens

- [Alice Treff](/source/Alice_Treff) as Mutter Walters

- [Ilse Furstenberg](/source/Ilse_Furstenberg)

- [Eva Bubat](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eva_Bubat&action=edit&redlink=1)

- [Maria Secher](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Maria_Secher&action=edit&redlink=1)

- [Hendrikje Simonis](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hendrikje_Simonis&action=edit&redlink=1)

- [Ernst Schroder](/source/Ernst_Schroder_(actor)) as Hugo Mielke

- [Adolf Dell](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Adolf_Dell&action=edit&redlink=1) as Vater Mertens

- [Adalbert Koffler](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Adalbert_Koffler&action=edit&redlink=1)

- [Hans Dieter Zeidler](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hans_Dieter_Zeidler&action=edit&redlink=1)

- [Arthur Mainzer](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arthur_Mainzer&action=edit&redlink=1)

- [Hans Halden](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hans_Halden&action=edit&redlink=1)

- [Erich Dunskus](/source/Erich_Dunskus)

- [Cornelia Froboess](/source/Cornelia_Froboess) as Bertha

- [Wolfgang Jansen](/source/Wolfgang_Jansen) as Heinz Mertens

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Baer p.106

## Bibliography

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

## External links

- [*The Sinful Border*](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044099/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier))

v t e Films directed by Robert A. Stemmle Charley's Aunt (1934) Heinz in the Moon (1934) Such a Rascal (1934) The Abduction of the Sabine Women (1936) Dangerous Crossing (1937) Daphne and the Diplomat (1937) By a Silken Thread (1938) The Mystery of Betty Bonn (1938) Man for Man (1939) The Big Game (1942) Johann (1943) The Millionaire (1947) The Berliner (1948) Abbiamo vinto! (1951) The Sinful Border (1951) Homesick for You (1952) Toxi (1952) Southern Nights (1953) Emil and the Detectives (1954) The Perfect Couple (1954) A Heart Full of Music (1955) You Can No Longer Remain Silent (1955) Die unvollkommene Ehe (1959)

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