The Chief Witness (film)

The Chief Witness (German: Die Kronzeugin) is a 1937 German crime drama film directed by Georg Jacoby and starring Iván Petrovich, Sybille Schmitz and Sabine Peters. It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Otto Hunte and Willy Schiller. Location shooting took place in the Krkonose Mountains in Czechoslovakia and Zugspitze in Bavaria.

Synopsis
Elise the former wife of composer Stefan Laurin begs him to recover some letters from a man who has been blackmailing her. When he gets to the man's apartment he finds him lying there dead, and becomes the leading suspect for his murder.

Cast

 * Iván Petrovich as Stefan Laurin
 * Sybille Schmitz as 	Jelena Rakowska
 * Sabine Peters as 	Nina Rakowska
 * Gustav Waldau as 	Georg Radloff
 * Elga Brink as Elise Laurin
 * Ursula Grabley as 	Rose Bonnet
 * Ursula Herking as 	Babett
 * Rudolf Platte as Kriminalassistent Malapert
 * Just Scheu as 	Dr. Sanders
 * Georg H. Schnell as 	Gerichtsvorsitzender
 * Ernst Dumcke as 	Staatsanwalt
 * Werner Pledath as 	Untersuchungsrichter
 * Hermann Pfeiffer as 	Regisseur
 * Josefine Dora as 	Souffleuse Krüger
 * Harry Hardt as Sänger
 * Hanni Weisse as 	Stefan Laurins Wirtschafterin
 * Olga Schaub as Gast bei Jelena
 * Dorothea Thiess as 	Ninas Zimmermädchen
 * Ellinor Büller as 	Krankenschwester
 * Rudolf Klix as 	Konsul Runge
 * Hermann Meyer-Falkow as 	Pianist
 * Erich Walter as Diener Williams
 * Wolfgang Grube as 	Arzt
 * Willy Kaufman as 	Kriminalbeamter Lüdecke
 * Gustav Mahnke as Schlafwagenschaffner
 * Erich Dunskus as 	Kriminalkommissar Geller
 * Eduard Bornträger as 	Polizeifotograf
 * Max Wilmsen as Kriminalbeamter
 * Christine Grabe as Krankenschwester
 * Adi Solta as 	Inspizient