Black Fighter Johanna (1934)

Drama

Germany under Napoleon. Johanna is travelling by stagecoach when one of its occupants, Major Korfes, is arrested by the French militia. Before capture, he gives Johanna a mysterious letter. To solve the mystery, she joins the German corps as the “Black Hunter”. A fantastic breeches role for the lesbian Marianne Hoppe, who two years later, married her gay film partner Gustav Gründgens to prevent persecution by the Nazis.

Cast

Johanna Luerssen
Major Korfes
Leutnant Péaulier
Amtmann Cropps Frau
Dr. Frost, politischer Agent
Johannas Tante, Philine Melchior
Herzog Friedrich Wilhelm von Braunschweig
Hofrat Zöllner
Oberst von Bernewitz
Feldmarschall
Mademoiselle Köttschau
Amtmann Cropp

Crew