Overview
I Am Sebastian Ott is a 1939 German crime film directed by Willi Forst and starring Forst, Gustav Diessl and Trude Marlen. Some of the film was shot by the assistant director Viktor Becker.
The film's sets were designed by the art director Kurt Herlth and Werner Schlichting. It was shot partly at the Sievering Studios in Vienna. It premiered at the Gloria-Palast in Berlin shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War.
The plot revolves around art fraud with Forst playing the dual role of twins, one honest and the other corrupt.
Cast
Willi Forst as Sebastian Ott / Ludwig Ott
Gustav Diessl as Strobl
Trude Marlen as Erika
Paul Hörbiger as Kriminalrat Baumann
Ady Berber as Meinhardt, Ganove
Lorenz Corvinus as Geheimrat bei der Ausstellung
Felix Dombrowsky as Kriminalkommissar
Richard Eybner as Schmiedl
Pepi Glöckner-Kramer as Marie, Mädchen bei Holzapfel
Hanns Hitzinger as Justizrat Norden
Reinhold Häussermann as Professor Nissen
Eduard Köck as Eberle, Faktoturn in der Galerie Ott
Ferdinand Mayerhofer as Kriminalkommissar Hellriegl
Alfred Neugebauer as Dr. Nemetz, Kriminalrat in Prag
Fritz Puchstein as Sekretär
Johannes Roth as Kellner
Werner Scharf as Paolini
Wilhelm Schich as Schneider
Otto Storm as Bankdirektor
Otto Treßler as Oberst Holzapfel
Robert Valberg as Prosecutor in Kopenhagen
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