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Hinter den Kulissen des Bahnhofs (1937)
Directed by Curt Wesse
Documentary, Drama · 18m
A film with a short storyline showing how locomotives and carriages are handled at stations from the arrival of a D-train until its next departure. The son of a train driver, who has to write an essay at school entitled "What I saw at the station," learns about the technical facilities of the marshalling yard along with the viewers: coal loading, water extraction, slag removal, work in the locomotive shed, cleaning the boilers, and maintaining the passenger cars. From the arrival of a train at the platform to its departure, the focus is on operational safety, cleanliness, and passenger comfort.
Cast
Grete Reinwald
Hans Meyer-Hanno
Crew
- Director
- Curt Wesse
- Writer
- Curt Wesse
- Director of Photography
- Franz Meinecke
- Producer
- Johannes Fritze
Details
- Release date
- 1937-01-01
- Runtime
- 18m
- Genres
- Documentary, Drama
- Original language
- DE
- Spoken languages
- German
- Countries
- Germany
- Production
- Reichsbahn-Filmstelle, Tobis-Melofilm