Excursion into Life

Overview

Felix Bressart, later one of the most delightful members of the Ernst Lubitsch "stock company," plays the title character in the Austrian comedy Hirsekorn Greift Ein (Hirsekorn Does Something About It). It's a typical worm-turns affair, as a mild-mannered provincial actor ends up working as a chauffeur for a scatterbrained female novelist. Slapstick is the order of the day, except in the scenes involving heroine Charlotte Susa. Guiding the actors through their paces was Rudolf Bernauer, a stage actor-manager of vast experience. Critics in 1931 felt that Hirsekorn Greift Ein was too thin to be stretched to 90 minutes.

Cast

Felix Bressart

Hirsekorn - Schauspieler und Chauffeur

Charlotte Susa

Thea von Diemen, Romanschriftstellerin

Rolf von Goth

Lothar Bosse, Werkführer

Rosa Valetti

Frau Hollmann, seine Wirtin

Truus van Aalten

Alma Marfield, Bürofräulein

Albert Paulig

Schwanfelder, Großindustrieller

Karl Zeska

Direktor Krause

Annie Rosar

Frau Direktor Krause

Paula Brosig

Fräulein Krause

Walter Jurmann

Willi Osten - Schauspieler