--- title: 'Chasing Fortune (1930)' type: 'film' director: 'Rochus Gliese' released: '1930-01-01' genres: - 'Drama' countries: - 'Germany' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/chasing-fortune-1930' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021008/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Chasing Fortune (1930) 1930 · Drama · Germany Original title: Die Jagd nach dem Glück ## Synopsis Chasing Fortune is a 1930 German drama film directed by Rochus Gliese and starring Catherine Hessling, Alexander Murski and Amy Wells. The film's art direction was by Gliese himself along with Arno Richter. It was initially made as a silent film, but was released with an added synchronised soundtrack. It was filmed at the Grunewald Studios in Berlin and on location around La Ciotat in Southern France. The animator Lotte Reiniger assistant-directed the film, overseeing the shadow puppet segments. ## Credits - **Director:** [Rochus Gliese](https://cinepixo.com/people/rochus-gliese) - **Screenplay:** [Rochus Gliese](https://cinepixo.com/people/rochus-gliese), [Carl Koch](https://cinepixo.com/people/carl-koch), [Lotte Reiniger](https://cinepixo.com/people/lotte-reiniger) - **Original Music Composer:** [Theo Mackeben](https://cinepixo.com/people/theo-mackeben) - **Director of Photography:** [Fritz Arno Wagner](https://cinepixo.com/people/fritz-arno-wagner) ## Cast - [Leo Reuss](https://cinepixo.com/people/leo-reuss) - [Catherine Hessling](https://cinepixo.com/people/catherine-hessling) - [Hans Rehmann](https://cinepixo.com/people/hans-rehmann) - [Alexander Murski](https://cinepixo.com/people/alexander-murski) - [Jean Renoir](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-renoir) - [Hilde Körber](https://cinepixo.com/people/hilde-korber) - [Berthold Bartosch](https://cinepixo.com/people/berthold-bartosch) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/chasing-fortune-1930 Film facts: Wikidata (Q16549554); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.