BFI 35mm print. Directed by Rudolf Walther-Fein with Hermann Picha, Lydia Potechina, Maria Paudler, Truus Van Aalten and Walter Rilla.
Kennington Bioscope presents Gentlemen Among Themselves, a 1929 German comedy directed by Vienna-born Rudolf Walther-Fein, who began his career as an actor. He made his stage debut aged 17 in Iglau – a German-speaking region now part of the Czech Republic – and went on to appear in cities that included Vienna, Salzburg, Munich and, finally, Berlin. It was there, in 1919, that he first obtained work as a screenwriter and director. During the 1920s, Walther-Fein directed numerous films while simultaneously serving as a production manager for the Aafa-Film company and also taking on the role of artistic supervisor for other productions. His films were mostly comedies or romantic dramas, among them 1929’s Dich hab’ ich geliebt (It’s You I Have Loved or Because I Loved You), Germany’s first all-talking feature film.