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An Auto and No Money

1932 film

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ114804230 ↗
Source-derived summary

An Auto and No Money (German: Ein Auto und kein Geld) is a 1932 German comedy film directed by Jacob Fleck and Luise Fleck, starring Paul Kemp, Dina Gralla and Igo Sym. It was shot at the Hunnia Studios in Budapest. The film's sets were designed by the art director Max Heilbronner.

Cast

Paul Kemp as Peter Knopf, Auslagendekorateur

Dina Gralla as Mimi

Igo Sym as Marchese della Serra

Jakob Tiedtke as Kersten, Fabrikant

Liselotte Schaak as Mary, seine Tochter

Walter Bach as Bobby

Hugo Döblin as S. Piper

Oscar Beregi Sr.

Gyula Kabos

Gusztáv Vándory

References

Bibliography

Klaus, Ulrich J. Deutsche Tonfilme: Jahrgang 1932. Klaus-Archiv, 1988.

Waldman, Harry. Nazi Films in America, 1933-1942. McFarland, 2008.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “An Auto and No Money” as 1932 film. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1932, 1988, 1933, 1942—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1932-02-11. The account is most persuasive where Auto, Money and film can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 1932 film. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q114804230. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1932, 1988, 1933 and 1942.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “An Auto and No Money”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow An Auto and No Money primary sources, An Auto and No Money archive and Auto research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “An Auto and No Money”?
  2. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
  3. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
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This entry incorporates text from “An Auto and No Money” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.