A City Upside Down (1933)

Original title

Eine Stadt steht kopf

Directed by

Gustaf Gründgens

Genre

comedy film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 20m

Rating

10.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A case of mistaken identity throws a small town into chaos when they believe a visitor is a high ranking official. The townspeople compete to win his favor while he enjoys his accidental status.

lightheartedzanyfast-pacedplayfulsatiricalenergeticconfusion

What happens

A City Upside Down (German: Eine Stadt steht Kopf) is a 1933 German comedy film directed by Gustaf Gründgens and starring S.Z. Sakall, Jenny Jugo and Hermann Thimig. It is based on the 1836 play The Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol. A separate Czech adaptation of the story The Inspector General was made the same year. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Rochus Gliese and Gabriel Pellon. Paul Martin worked as assistant director on the film. Some location shooting took place in Staufen im Breisgau. This movie is set in the modern day (the 1930s). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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