Madness Rules

Madness Rules (German: Matto regiert) is a 1947 Swiss crime film directed by Leopold Lindtberg and starring Heinrich Gretler, Heinz Woester and Elisabeth Müller. It is based on the 1936 novel of the same name by Friedrich Glauser. Lead actor Gretler reprised his role of the policeman Jakob Studer from the 1939 film Constable Studer, also adapted from a Glauser novel.

Madness Rules
Heinrich Gretler (left) as Constable Studer
Directed by	Leopold Lindtberg
Written by	Friedrich Glauser (novel) Leopold Lindtberg Alfred Neumann
Starring	Heinrich Gretler Heinz Woester Elisabeth Müller
Cinematography	Emil Berna
Edited by	Hermann Haller
Music by	Robert Blum
Production company	Praesens-Film
Distributed by	Praesens-Film
Release date	17 April 1947 (1947-04-17)
Running time	113 minutes
Country	Switzerland
Language	Swiss German

Production

The film was shot between December 1946 and March 1947 at the Bellerive and Rosenhof Studios in Zürich with some location shooting around Königsfelden. The film cost around 395,000 Swiss Francs.

Synopsis

The police investigate the murder of the head of a mental hospital who had recently been in dispute with his colleague over their treatment of a young patient.

Cast

• Heinrich Gretler as Constable Jakob Studer
• Heinz Woester as Doctor Ernst Laduner
• Elisabeth Müller Sister Irma Wasem
• Friedrich Braun as Patient
• Otto Brefin
• Gottlieb Büchi
• Zarli Carigiet as Patient
• Mathilde Danegger as Dr. med Spühler
• Fritz Delius as Patient
• Hugo Döblin as Patient
• Enzo Ertini as Patient
• Hans Gaugler as Leibundgut
• Emil Gerber as Pfleger Jutzeler
• Walburga Gmür as Patientin
• Emil Gyr as Patient
• Max Haufler as Pfleger Weyrauch
• Emil Hegetschweiler as Pfleger Gilgen
• Hans Kaes as Portier Dreyer
• Jörn Kübler as Patient
• Olaf Kübler as Herbert Kaplaun
• Max Werner Lenz as Patient
• Adolf Manz as Georg Caplaun
• Viktor May as Patient
• Walter Morath as Dr. med. Neuveville
• Irene Naef as Margrit Laduner
• Arno Rita as Patient
• Armin Schweizer as Patient
• Johannes Steiner as Dr. med Ulrich Borstli
• Sigfrit Steiner as Kommissar
• Schaggi Streuli as Nachtwächter

Bibliography

• Fritsche, Maria. Homemade Men in Postwar Austrian Cinema: Nationhood, Genre and Masculinity. Berghahn Books, 2013.

External links

• Madness Rules at IMDb