1949 film
The Cuckoos Directed by Hans Deppe Written by Starring Cinematography Edited by Lisa Thiemann Music by Ernst Roters Production company
Distributed by Progress Film (East Germany)Release date
8 April 1949 (1949-04-08 )
Running time
93 minutes Country Germany Language German
The Cuckoos (German : Die Kuckucks ) is a 1949 German comedy drama film directed by Hans Deppe and starring Ina Halley , Rainer Penkert and Carsta Löck .[1] It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in East Berlin . The film was made in the Soviet Zone , in what would soon become East Germany . The film's sets were designed by the art director Wilhelm Vorwerg .
Ina Halley as Inge Kuckert
Rainer Penkert as Hanno Gersdorf
Günther Güssefeldt as Heinz Krüger
Aribert Wäscher as Eberhard Schultz
Carsta Löck as Wanda Merian - Kunstgewerblerin
Hans Neie as Rolf Kuckert
Gertrud Wolle as Frau Poehler - die Wirtin
Marlise Ludwig as Frau Bissig
Heinz Schröder as Max Kuckert
Nils-Peter Mahlau as Manfred Kuckert - Genannt Moritz
Regine Fischer as Evchen Kuckert
Thomas Dunskus as Erwin - Maurerlehrling
Knut Hartwig as Meister Miericke
Günther Klapp as Klaus - Tischlerlehrling
Michael Klein-Chevalier as Heini - Klemplerlehrling
Klaus Deppe as Ferdinand - Schlosserlehrling
Horst Günter Fiegler as Egon - Radiomechanikerlehrling
Elly Burgmer as Jugendfürsorgerin
Liselotte Lieck as Dame in der Leihbibliothek
Erich Dunskus as Maurer
Karl Hannemann as Wirt der 'Goldenen Traube'
Albert Johannes as Leiter der Jugendfürsorge
Otto Matthies as Oberkellner
Hans Joachim Schölermann as Schimkat
Walter Strasen as Polizist
Maria Grünfeld as Frau Nobel
Hilde Sonntag as Frau Pinselig
Isolde Laugs as Frau Zottel
Eleonore Tappert as Frau Dickbein
Johannes Bergfeldt as Herr Hahn
Nora Boltenhagen as Stenotypistin
Käthe Jöken-König as Krügers Wirtin
Fritz Bohnstedt as Maurer
Maria Hofen
Hans Deppe
Herbert Weissbach
Willi Wietfeldt
Georg Helge
Ingrid Pankow
Gerda Müller
Siegfried Andrich
Meta Rodrich Karl, Lars & Skopal, Pavel. Cinema in Service of the State: Perspectives on Film Culture in the GDR and Czechoslovakia, 1945–1960 . Berghahn Books, 2015.
Pinkert, Anke. Film and Memory in East Germany . Indiana University Press, 2008.