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The Corvette Captain (1930)

The Corvette Captain poster
Original title
Der Korvettenkapitän
Directed by
Rudolf Walther-Fein
Genre
drama
Country
Germany
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A romantic comedy set on a warship. It follows a charming captain and the people around him.

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What happens

The Corvette Captain (German: Der Korvettenkapitän) is a 1930 romantic comedy film directed by Rudolf Walther-Fein and starring Harry Liedtke, Lia Eibenschütz and Maria Paudler. It was shot at the Babelsberg and Tempelhof Studios and aboard a warship on the Dalmatian coast of the Adriatic Sea. The film's sets were designed by the art director Botho Höfer. Produced shortly after the conversion from silent to sound film, it was made by one of the leading independent studios Aafa Film. It is also known by the alternative title Blaue Jungs von der Marine. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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