Black Fighter Johanna

Release Date: 1934-09-05

Overview: 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.

Rating: 5 / 10

Cast

Marianne Hoppe

as Johanna Luerssen

Paul Hartmann

as Major Korfes

Gustaf Gründgens

as Dr. Frost, politischer Agent

Fita Benkhoff

as Johannas Tante, Philine Melchior

Paul Bildt

as Herzog Friedrich Wilhelm von Braunschweig