Holiday From Myself (1934 film)

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Holiday From Myself
Speelmans as the American businessman (centre) enjoying his escape from a hectic life.

German	Ferien vom Ich

Directed by	Hans Deppe
Written by	Paul Keller (novel) Peter Francke
Produced by	Peter Ostermayr Alfred Zeisler
Starring	Hermann Speelmans Carola Höhn Georg H. Schnell
Cinematography	Hugo von Kaweczynski
Edited by	Paul May
Music by	Marc Roland
Production company	Olf Fjord-Film
Distributed by	UFA
Release date	7 December 1934 (1934-12-07)
Country	Germany
Language	German

Holiday From Myself (German: Ferien vom Ich) is a 1934 German comedy film directed by Hans Deppe and starring Hermann Speelmans, Carola Höhn, and Georg H. Schnell.^[1]

The film's sets were designed by the art directors Willi Herrmann and Hans Kuhnert. It was partly shot on location in Lower Saxony. Deppe himself directed a remake of the film in 1952.

Plot

A stressed American millionaire is advised by his doctor to take some downtime and rest in the German countryside. The tycoon is so impressed that he buys an estate and turns it into a resort where other businessmen can take holidays from their stressful lives. In the process he falls in love with the estate's former owner.

Cast

Hermann Speelmans as Georges B. Steffenson, American large-scale industrialist
Carola Höhn as Eva von Dornberg
Georg H. Schnell as Dr. Hartung, doctor
Hans Zesch-Ballot as John Stone, Secretary General of Steffenson
Ewald Wenck as Lehmann, Factotum of the guest house
Hans Adalbert Schlettow as Barthel, Gutsinspektor
Gina Falckenberg as Doris, John Stone's sister
Walter Steinbeck as Eberhardt Kreutzer, director
Fritz Genschow as Erich Bürger, clerk
Cilly Feindt as Elisabeth Schuhmacher
Paul Henckels as Hein Stumpe, justice
Werner Finck as Ottokar Geldern
Eduard Wesener as Robert Braun
Ernst Behmer as August Stempel, chancellery secretary
Else Reval as Klärchen - Stempel's wife
Vilma Bekendorf
Hermann Braun
Richard Handwerk
Resi Langer
Karin Luesebrink
Marianne Mewes
Carl Walther Meyer
Gerti Ober
Friedrich Franz Stampe
Hans Stiebner

References

^ Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. p. 193. ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9.

External links

Holiday From Myself at IMDb

Films directed by Hans Deppe

The Rider on the White Horse (1934)
Hubertus Castle (1934)
Holiday From Myself (1934)
A Night of Change (1935)
The Saint and Her Fool (1935)
The Valiant Navigator (1935)
The Three Around Christine (1936)
Street Music (1936)
The Hunter of Fall (1936)
Meiseken (1937)
Silence in the Forest (1937)
Fools in the Snow (1938)
Storms in May (1938)
The Scoundrel (1939)
The War of the Oxen (1943)
A Salzburg Comedy (1943)
A Man Like Maximilian (1945)
No Place for Love (1947)
Don't Play with Love (1949)
How Do We Tell Our Children? (1949)
The Cuckoos (1949)
My Wife's Friends (1949)
One Night Apart (1950)
The Black Forest Girl (1950)
The Heath Is Green (1951)
Not Without Gisela (1951)
Holiday From Myself (1952)
The Prince of Pappenheim (1952)
The Land of Smiles (1952)
Secretly Still and Quiet (1953)
When the White Lilacs Bloom Again (1953)
The Great Lola (1954)
The Seven Dresses of Katrin (1954)
The Country Schoolmaster (1954)
The Ambassador's Wife (1955)
Son Without a Home (1955)
When the Alpine Roses Bloom (1955)
The Priest from Kirchfeld (1955)
Your Life Guards (1955)
The Tour Guide of Lisbon (1956)
My Brother Joshua (1956)
A Thousand Melodies (1956)
As Long as the Roses Bloom (1956)
Beneath the Palms on the Blue Sea (1957)
All Roads Lead Home (1957)
Immer die Radfahrer (1958)
Thirteen Old Donkeys (1958)
Kein Mann zum Heiraten (1959)
The Domestic Tyrant (1959)
That's No Way to Land a Man (1959)
Mandolins and Moonlight (1959)
When the Heath Is in Bloom (1960)
Guitars Sound Softly Through the Night (1960)
Robert and Bertram (1961)
I Must Go to the City (1962)

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