Death Over Shanghai

Produced byWalter HoffmannStarringCinematographyWilly HameisterEdited byHildegard GrebnerMusic byLeo LeuxDistributed bySiegel-Monopolfilm79 minutesCountryGermanyLanguageGerman

Death Over Shanghai (German: Tod über Shanghai) is a 1932 German thriller film directed by Rolf Randolf and starring Gerda Maurus, Else Elster and Theodor Loos. The Chinese Ministry of Education requested^[when?] that the German government have the film destroyed because they had received reports that it "ridiculed China and the Chinese people".^[1]

The film's sets were designed by the art director Heinrich Richter. Location filming took place on the Halligen of the North Sea.

• Gerda Maurus as Praxa, Besitzerin des Teehauses zur 'Mohnblüte'
• Else Elster as Maud - Gouverneurs Tochter
• Theodor Loos as James Biggers
• Peter Voß as John Baxter
• Max Ralph-Ostermann as Gouverneur Harris
• Robert Eckert as Mac Hover amerik. Marine-Attaché
• Ernst Pröckl as William - Biggers Sekretär
• Georg John as Lutsin - Praxas Diener
• Mammey Terja-Basa as Baxters Gehilfe
• Aruth Wartan as Corner
• Otto Kronburger as Kommandant der 'Washington'
• Fritz Alberti as Dr. Brown, Polizeichef
• Egon Kaiser as Kapellmeister & sein Orchester

• Lu, Sheldon Hsiao-Peng (1997). Transnational Chinese Cinemas: Identity, Nationhood, Gender. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-1845-6. - Read online, registration required

• Death Over Shanghai at IMDb