--- title: 'The Beaver Coat (1949)' type: 'film' director: 'Erich Engel' released: '1949-10-21' runtime_minutes: 97 genres: - 'Drama' - 'Comedy' countries: - 'German Democratic Republic' - 'Germany' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-beaver-coat-1949' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041174/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # The Beaver Coat (1949) 1949 · 97 min · Drama, Comedy · German Democratic Republic, Germany Original title: Der Biberpelz ## Synopsis The Beaver Coat is a 1949 East German comedy film directed by Erich Engel and starring Fita Benkhoff, Werner Hinz and Käthe Haack. It is an adaptation of Gerhart Hauptmann's 1893 play The Beaver Coat, previously adapted into a 1928 silent film and a 1937 sound film produced during the Nazi era. ## Credits - **Director:** [Erich Engel](https://cinepixo.com/people/erich-engel) - **Screenplay:** [Robert A. Stemmle](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-a-stemmle) - **Original Music Composer:** [Ernst Roters](https://cinepixo.com/people/ernst-roters) - **Director of Photography:** [Bruno Mondi](https://cinepixo.com/people/bruno-mondi) - **Editor:** [Lilian Seng](https://cinepixo.com/people/lilian-seng) ## Cast - [Renate Wilson](https://cinepixo.com/people/renate-wilson) - [Franz Weber](https://cinepixo.com/people/franz-weber) - [Paul Bildt](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-bildt) - [Emmy Burg](https://cinepixo.com/people/emmy-burg) - [Werner Peters](https://cinepixo.com/people/werner-peters) - [Walter Bechmann](https://cinepixo.com/people/walter-bechmann) - [Herbert Wilk](https://cinepixo.com/people/herbert-wilk) - [Gisela Breiderhoff](https://cinepixo.com/people/gisela-breiderhoff) - [Friedrich Honna](https://cinepixo.com/people/friedrich-honna) - [Werner Hinz](https://cinepixo.com/people/werner-hinz) - [Erwin Geschonneck](https://cinepixo.com/people/erwin-geschonneck) - [Hans Ulrich](https://cinepixo.com/people/hans-ulrich) - [Elfie Dugal](https://cinepixo.com/people/elfie-dugal) - [Fita Benkhoff](https://cinepixo.com/people/fita-benkhoff) - [Erik von Loewis](https://cinepixo.com/people/erik-von-loewis) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-beaver-coat-1949 Film facts: Wikidata (Q17327204); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.