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The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi

5.5 0 mins Comedy   1961
CCC Filmkunst   Praesens-Film  
Director(s): Kurt Hoffmann

Release Date: 23 Fri, Jun 1961

Florestan Mississippi, a public prosecutor by profession, visits a lady named Anastasia and, while drinking coffee with her, convicts her of poisoning her husband. At the same time, he asks for her hand in marriage, as he too has killed his wife with poison; the marriage is to be the "atonement" of the two poisoners. The four allegorical personifications in this comedy are, in addition to the loveless, absolute justice in the form of the prosecutor Mississippi, perfect equality, represented by the world revolutionary Saint-Claude, Christian love, embodied in the down-and-out, alcoholic tropical doctor Count Uebelohe-Zabernsee, and finally the "Frau Welt" of the old mystery play – Anastasia, who falls for everyone and betrays everyone, loves nothing but the moment, and dies with an invoked untruth on her lips.

Casts of The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi

O.E. Hasse

as Florestan Mississippi

Johanna von Koczian

as Anastasia

Martin Held

as Frédéric René Saint-Claude

Hansjörg Felmy

as Graf Bodo von Überlohe-Zabernsee

Charles Regnier

as Sir Thomas Jones

Edith Hancke

as Lukretia

Max Haufler

as van Bosch

Karl Lieffen

as Santamaria

Ruedi Walter

as McGoy

Herbert Weißbach

as Finanzminister

Gudrun Genest

as Kanzlistin

Tilo von Berlepsch

as Außenminister

Jochen Blume

as Sekretär Beuss

Hanns Ernst Jäger

as Schlender

Joachim Boldt

as Polizeileutnant

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