Max the Pickpocket

Max the Pickpocket
Elfie Pertramer and Heinz Rühmann
Directed by	Imo Moszkowicz
Written by	István Békeffy Hans Jacoby
Produced by	Claus Hardt Utz Utermann
Starring	Heinz Rühmann Elfie Pertramer Hans Clarin
Cinematography	Albert Benitz
Edited by	Walter Boos
Music by	Martin Böttcher
Production company	Bavaria Film
Distributed by	Bavaria Film
Release date	1 March 1962 (1962-03-01)
Running time	91 minutes
Country	West Germany
Language	German

Max the Pickpocket (German: Max, der Taschendieb) is a 1962 West German comedy crime film directed by Imo Moszkowicz and starring Heinz Rühmann, Elfie Pertramer and Hans Clarin.

It was made at the Bavaria Studios in Munich.

Synopsis

A small-time pickpocket investigates when his brother-in-law is murdered.

Cast

Heinz Rühmann as Max Schilling
Elfie Pertramer as Pauline Schilling
Hans Clarin as Fred
Ruth Stephan as Desiree
Hans Hessling as Arthur
Lotte Ledl as Lizzy
Benno Sterzenbach as Charly Gibbons
Harald Maresch as Joe
Frithjof Vierock as Egon Schilling
Hans Leibelt
Ulrich Beiger as Alleinunterhalter
Hans Jürgen Diedrich
Helga Anders as Brigitte
Gernot Duda
Arno Assmann as Polizeiinspektor Friedrich

References

↑ Bock & Bergfelder p.55

Bibliography

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

External links

Max the Pickpocket at IMDb

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