The Cruel Mistress

The Cruel Mistress
Directed by	Carl Lamac
Written by	Hans H. Zerlett Walter Wassermann
Produced by	Anatol Potock Carl Lamac Anny Ondra
Starring	Anny Ondra Fritz Rasp Lina Woiwode
Cinematography	Otto Heller Josef Wirsching Ernst Zahn
Edited by	Ella Ensink
Music by	Rolf Marbot Bert Reisfeld
Production companies	Ondra-Lamac-Film Lothar Stark-Film
Distributed by	Hugo Engel-Filmgesellschaft
Release date	12 July 1932 (1932-07-12)
Running time	78 minutes
Countries	Austria Germany
Language	German

The Cruel Mistress (German: Die grausame Freundin) is a 1932 Austrian-German comedy film directed by Carl Lamac and starring Anny Ondra, Fritz Rasp and Lina Woiwode.^[1] A separate French-language version Should We Wed Them? was also released. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Otto Erdmann and Hans Sohnle.

Professor Bock, a quarrelsome astronomer, has long had a falling out with his brother, who went to America after marrying a circus performer. When his brother's widow and her son Jim arrive, a romance blossoms between the young man and the professor's daughter Welgunda.

• Anny Ondra as Welgunda
• Fritz Rasp as Professor Bock
• Lina Woiwode as Frau Bock
• Werner Fuetterer as Jim Bock
• Olga Limburg as Jim Bocks Mutter
• Ernst Arndt as Professor Bierbrot
• Carl Goetz as Zirkusdirektor
• Karl Forest as Schulinspektor
• Dorothy Poole as Sängerin
• Gustav Werner as Hoteldirektor
• Hugo Thimig

• Robert von Dassanowsky. Austrian Cinema: A History. McFarland, 2005.

• The Cruel Mistress at IMDb