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Invisible Opponent (1933)

Invisible Opponent poster
Original title
Unsichtbare Gegner
Directed by
Rudolph Cartier
Genre
drama film
Country
Germany, Austria
Runtime
1h 27m
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A German-Austrian drama from 1933, directed by Rudolph Cartier. The story involves conflict over oil resources. Critics at the time found the film unconvincing and poorly made.

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What happens

Invisible Opponent (German: Unsichtbare Gegner) is a 1933 German-Austrian drama film directed by Rudolph Cartier and starring Gerda Maurus, Paul Hartmann, and Oskar Homolka. The film's sets were designed by the art director Erwin Scharf. The film was made at the Sievering Studios in Vienna. The critics were not generally impressed with the film, with the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung describing it as an "unbelievable and unbelievably awful picture". A separate French-language version The Oil Sharks was also released. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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