The Traitor (Verräter) 88 years old

This 1936 film tells the story of the doings of foreign agents in Germany and their allies among the German population. Having placed an ad in a local paper looking for "contact with bigwigs in German industry", enemy agents Morris and Geyer end up making contact with an engineer named Brockau. Brockau has developed an improvement in turning oil into gasoline and that's just what these enemy agents are looking for. Brockau, for his part, needs money, because his girlfriend is a selfish cow who demands more and more toys and trinkets, which has put our naive little nerd deep into debt. Brockau, however, is not the only unwitting maroon to fall into the clutches of the evil agents: the former bank agent Hans Klemm, now doing his service in the Wehrmacht, ends up being contacted by an agent from the other side and ends up getting blackmailed into working for them.

Credits

The Traitor Cast

Name Character
Josef Dahmen He was 32, 81 years old when he died as Agentenhelfer
Rudolf Fernau He was 38, 87 years old when he died as Dr. Fritz Brockau
Heinrich Schroth He was 65, 73 years old when he died as Direktor der T-Metallwerke
Hans Zesch-Ballot He was 40, 76 years old when he died as Dr. Wehner
Theodor Loos He was 53, 71 years old when he died as Dr. Auer
Willy Birgel He was 44, 82 years old when he died as Spy Chief Morris
Paul Dahlke He was 32, 80 years old when he died as Geyer, his cohort
Gisela von Collande She was 21, 45 years old when she died as Spy Trude
Lída Baarová She was 21, 86 years old when she died as Marion Brokau
Sepp Rist He was 36, 80 years old when he died as Commissioner Kilian
Herbert A.E.Böhme He was 38, 86 years old when he died as Spy "Wilhelm Schultz"
Irene von Meyendorff She was 20, 85 years old when she died as Hilde Körner
Siegfried Schürenberg He was 36, 93 years old when he died as Neumann
Otto Graf He was 39, 80 years old when he died as Captain Dressler
Hans Henninger He was 31, 32 years old when he died as Tankist Maxe
Ewald Wenck He was 44, 89 years old when he died as Commissioner Schober
Volker von Collande He was 22, 76 years old when he died as Inspector Kropke

The Traitor Crew

Name Department
Hans Ritter as Production Director. He was 7 (now 80) years old Production
The Traitor poster
The Traitor (88 years)

  • Release day: Wednesday, August 19, 1936
  • Runtime: 92 minutes