A Man Astray

A Man Astray (German: Ein Mann auf Abwegen) is a 1940 German comedy adventure film directed by Herbert Selpin and starring Hans Albers, Charlotte Thiele and Hilde Weissner. The film is an adaptation of the 1938 novel Percy auf Abwegen by Hans Zehrer. It was shot at the Halensee Studios in Berlin and the Bavaria Studios in Munich. Location shooting took place around Lake Starnberg in Bavaria. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Paul Markwitz and Fritz Maurischat. A financial success, it was produced and distributed by Tobis Film, one of Nazi Germany's leading film companies.

Synopsis
Percival Pattersson, a wealthy Swedish industrialist, disappears one morning without warning, and police suspect a crime. However, his daughter Ingrid and a journalist both suspect he has deliberately vanished and set out to track him down. Pattersson has in fact been laying low incognito but when his daughter approaches, he flees to Geneva posing as the chauffeur of the singer Lisaweta who he has fallen in love with.

Cast

 * Hans Albers as Percival Pattersson
 * Charlotte Thiele as Ingrid Pattersson
 * Hilde Weissner as Lisaweta Iwanowna
 * Gustav Waldau as Raymondo Duvallo
 * Hilde Sessak as Marcella Duvallo
 * Werner Fuetterer as 	Nils Nilsen
 * Peter Voß as 	Sully
 * Herbert Hübner as 	Meyers
 * Werner Scharf as 	Strakosch, Lisawetas Sekretär
 * Gerhard Dammann as 	Der Wirt in der Taverne
 * Charly Berger as 	Ein Direktionsmitglieder des Patterson-Konzerns
 * Fritz Draeger as Ein Tänzer in der Bar
 * Angelo Ferrari as 	Der italienische Chauffeur
 * Harry Hardt as Empfangschef im Kasino-Restaurant
 * Fritz Hinz-Fabricius as 	Archibald, Patterssons Diener
 * Heinz Förster-Ludwig as 	Der Chauffeur bei Percy Pattersson
 * Christa Dilthey	as	Die Sekretärin Nils Nilsens
 * Alfred Karen as 	Ein Direktionsmitglied des Patterson-Konzerns
 * Karl Junge-Swinburne as 	Der Schneidermeister der Chauffeuruniform
 * Egon Stief as Ein Gast am Eingang der Taverne
 * Theodor Thony as 	Ein Völkerbundabgeordneter
 * Gustl Kreusch as 	Renée, Köchin
 * Arthur Reinhardt as 	Ein Polizist
 * Manfred Meurer	as	Der geohrfeigte Mitarbeiter Nils Nilsens
 * Werner Schott as 	Carlsson, Patterssons Sekretär
 * Friedrich Ulmer as 	Der Kommissar
 * Aruth Wartan as Manula, der Chefkoch im Kasinorestaurant