If the Father and the Son (1955)
After Clown Teddy lost his son, he lost his gift for laughter. He opened a joke shop and lives above the shop. His landlady has had a foster son since birth, and Teddy decides to raise the child, who always believed that Teddy was his father. When the mother suddenly appears five years later and wants her son, Teddy decides to run away with the child and goes back onstage with his son. Will the family catch up with them, or will the mother never get her son back?
Director:
Hans Quest
Writers:
Gustav Kampendonk, Eckart Hachfeld.
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Heinz Rühmann as Teddy Lemke |
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Oliver Grimm as Ulli |
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Waltraut Haas as Gerti |
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Robert Freitag as Roy Bentley |
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Pero Alexander as Donald Crossman |
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Fita Benkhoff as Miss Biermann |
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Carl-Heinz Schroth as Peepe |
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Rudolf Schündler as Man in the store |
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Sybil Werden as Jane Bentley |
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Herbert Kiper as Agent Miller |
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Hans Schwarz Jr. as Samson |
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Wolfgang Condrus as Blond boy with soccer ball (uncredited) |
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Heidi Becker as Helga |
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Arnim Dahl as Art jumper |
| Editing | Hermann Leitner | Editor |
| Sound | Heino Gaze | Original Music Composer |
| Directing | Hans Quest | Director |
| Production | Kurt Ulrich | Producer |
| Writing | Gustav Kampendonk | Screenplay |
| Writing | Eckart Hachfeld | Screenplay |
| Production | Hans Lehmann | Producer |
| Camera | Kurt Schulz | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Hans Grimm | Idea |