--- title: 'Hocuspocus (1953)' type: 'film' director: 'Kurt Hoffmann' released: '1953-01-01' runtime_minutes: 89 genres: - 'Comedy' countries: - 'Germany' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/hocuspocus-1953' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045880/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Hocuspocus (1953) 1953 · 89 min · Comedy · Germany Original title: Hokuspokus ## Synopsis Hocuspocus is a 1953 West German comedy crime film directed by Kurt Hoffmann and starring Curt Goetz, Valerie von Martens and Hans Nielsen. Based on Goetz's own play from 1926 and on the first movie of 1930 of which an English-language version was made at the same time, it was remade in 1966 in color as Hocuspocus. It was shot at Göttingen Studios. The film's sets were designed by the art director's Kurt Herlth and Hermann Warm. ## Credits - **Screenplay:** [Curt Goetz](https://cinepixo.com/people/curt-goetz) - **Director:** [Kurt Hoffmann](https://cinepixo.com/people/kurt-hoffmann) - **Original Music Composer:** [Franz Grothe](https://cinepixo.com/people/franz-grothe) - **Producer:** [Hans Domnick](https://cinepixo.com/people/hans-domnick) - **Director of Photography:** [Richard Angst](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-angst) ## Cast - [Erich Ponto](https://cinepixo.com/people/erich-ponto) - [Fritz Rasp](https://cinepixo.com/people/fritz-rasp) - [Mila Kopp](https://cinepixo.com/people/mila-kopp) - [Curt Goetz](https://cinepixo.com/people/curt-goetz) - [Valerie von Martens](https://cinepixo.com/people/valerie-von-martens) - [Joachim Teege](https://cinepixo.com/people/joachim-teege) - [Hans Nielsen](https://cinepixo.com/people/hans-nielsen) - [Elisabeth Flickenschildt](https://cinepixo.com/people/elisabeth-flickenschildt) - [Ernst Waldow](https://cinepixo.com/people/ernst-waldow) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/hocuspocus-1953 Film facts: Wikidata (Q1624236); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.