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Bonus on Death

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Bonus on Death
Judith Holzmeister and Siegfried Breuer
Directed byCurd Jürgens
Written byKurt Heuser
Curd Jürgens
Starring
CinematographyGünther Anders
Hannes Staudinger
Music byWilly Schmidt-Gentner
Production
company
Alpen Film
Distributed byOefram Filmgesellschaft
Release date
  • 13 January 1950 (1950-01-13)
Running time
78 minutes
CountryAustria
LanguageGerman

Bonus on Death (German: Prämien auf den Tod) is a 1950 Austrian crime film directed by Curd Jürgens and starring Judith Holzmeister, Werner Krauss and Siegfried Breuer. One of a handful of Austrian crime films made during the post-war period, it was not particularly successful at the box office.[1]

The film's sets were designed by Isabella Schlichting and Werner Schlichting.

Synopsis

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Short of money, a man creates a scam where he takes out life insurance policies on fake identities, then pretends they have died in order to collect the payouts.

Cast

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References

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  1. ^ Fritsche p.31

Bibliography

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  • Fritsche, Maria. Homemade Men in Postwar Austrian Cinema: Nationhood, Genre and Masculinity. Berghahn Books, 2013.
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