---
title: 'Der Postmeister (1940)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Gustav Ucicky'
released: '1940-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 95
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'Nazi Germany'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/der-postmeister-1940'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032935/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Der Postmeister (1940)

1940 · 95 min · Drama · Nazi Germany


## Synopsis

Der Postmeister is a 1940 Austrian-German drama film directed by Gustav Ucicky. Very loosely based on The Station Master, an 1831 short story from The Belkin Tales series by Alexander Pushkin, it was remade in 1955 as Dunja. An earlier adaptation was the French film Nostalgie (1938) with Harry Baur, directed by Victor Tourjansky.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Gustav Ucicky](https://cinepixo.com/people/gustav-ucicky)
- **Screenplay:** [Gerhard Menzel](https://cinepixo.com/people/gerhard-menzel)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Willy Schmidt-Gentner](https://cinepixo.com/people/willy-schmidt-gentner)
- **Producer:** [Karl Hartl](https://cinepixo.com/people/karl-hartl)
- **Director of Photography:** [Hans Schneeberger](https://cinepixo.com/people/hans-schneeberger)
- **Editor:** [Rudolf Schaad](https://cinepixo.com/people/rudolf-schaad)

## Cast

- [Anton Pointner](https://cinepixo.com/people/anton-pointner)
- [Reinhold Häussermann](https://cinepixo.com/people/reinhold-haussermann) as Schneider
- [Franz Böheim](https://cinepixo.com/people/franz-boheim)
- [Hilde Krahl](https://cinepixo.com/people/hilde-krahl) as Dunja
- [Edwin Jürgensen](https://cinepixo.com/people/edwin-jurgensen)
- [Bernhard Wicki](https://cinepixo.com/people/bernhard-wicki)
- [Erik Frey](https://cinepixo.com/people/erik-frey) as Sergej
- [Siegfried Breuer](https://cinepixo.com/people/siegfried-breuer) as Rittmeister Minskij
- [Karl Ehmann](https://cinepixo.com/people/karl-ehmann)
- [Hans Holt](https://cinepixo.com/people/hans-holt) as Fähnrich Mitja
- [Leo Peukert](https://cinepixo.com/people/leo-peukert) as Oberst
- [Oskar Wegrostek](https://cinepixo.com/people/oskar-wegrostek)
- [Frida Richard](https://cinepixo.com/people/frida-richard)
- [Hugo Gottschlich](https://cinepixo.com/people/hugo-gottschlich)
- [Heinrich George](https://cinepixo.com/people/heinrich-george) as Der Postmeister

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/der-postmeister-1940
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