Knockout (1935 film)

Knockout
Directed by	Carl Lamac Hans H. Zerlett
Produced by	Artur Hohenberg Carl Lamac Anny Ondra
Written by	Hans H. Zerlett
Starring	Anny Ondra Max Schmeling Hans Schönrath
Music by	Leo Leux
Cinematography	Otto Heller Gustl A. Weiss Ludwig Zahn
Edited by	Ella Ensink
Production company	Ondra-Lamac-Film Bavaria Film
Distributed by	Bavaria Film
Release dates	1 March 1935
Country	Germany
Language	German

Knockout is a 1935 German sports film directed by Carl Lamac and Hans H. Zerlett and starring Anny Ondra, Max Schmeling and Hans Schönrath. After impressing a boxing trainer during a brawl over a woman, a young man is recruited and trained to be a boxer. He fights and defeats the British champion.

Schmeling was a leading international boxer and the film was an attempt to capitalize on his fame. Schmeling and Ondra, who plays the romantic love interest, were married in real life. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Wilhelm Depenau and Erich Zander.

Cast

• Anny Ondra as Marianne Plümke
• Max Schmeling as Max Breuer
• Hans Schönrath as Hawkins, Boxer
• Edith Meinhard as Fräulein Melitta
• Fritz Odemar as Der Theaterdirektor
• Anni Markart as Camilla
• Hans Richter as Josef, Hilfsbeleuchter
• Otto Wernicke as P. F. Schmidtchen
• Wilhelm Bendow as Der Assistant
• Karl Platen as Der Inspizient
• Hermann Meyer-Falkow as Der Trainer
• Josef Eichheim as Der Mann, der seinen Hut aufißt
• Paul Samson-Körner as Der Boxer Hütgen
• Max Schreck as Leiter der Künstleragentur
• Isa Vermehren as Die Hamburger Sängerin
• Annie Ann
• Lilian Bergo
• Cornelius Booth
• Beppo Brem
• O.E. Hasse
• Manfred Matwin
• Charlotte Radspieler
• Rosi Rauch as Singer
• Ernst Rotmund
• Karl Schopp
• Egon Stief

Bibliography

• Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.

External links

• Knockout at IMDb