Kitty and the World Conference

Kitty and the World Conference (1939)

Comedy

The setting is Lugano (Switzerland), where an apparently very important world conference takes place. The film tells the story of the young Kitty (Hannelore Schroth), who works as a manicurist at the Eden Hotel, and who in the course of events gets to know both a young journalist (Christian Gollong) and the English minister of economics (Fritz Odemar). A lot of wild mix-ups, comic situations, a love story and occasional singing ensue, and in the end most of the VIPs have gained their share of laughter… There’s also a great performance by Paul Hörbiger as the hotel porter. For a 1939 film made in Germany, “Kitty” is remarkably irreverent and satirical about politics.

Director: Helmut Käutner

Casts

	Hannelore Schroth as Kitty
	Fritz Odemar as Sir Horace Ashlin
	Max Gülstorff as Vicomte Tristan de Gavard
	Paul Hörbiger as Portier Franz Huber
	Hubert von Meyerinck as Carter
	Rudolf Schündler as Rundfunkreporter
	Franz Arzdorf as Hoteldirektor Füßli
	Maria Nicklisch as Irene Sorel
	Charlott Daudert as Mimi
	Leopold von Ledebur as Ministerialsekretär Mason
	Hermann Pfeiffer as Paillot
	Christian Gollong as Piet Enthousen, holländischer Journalist
	Helmut Weiss as Bradsley
	Herbert Hübner as Wirtschaftsminister von Coprador
	Wilhelm Bendow as Französischer minister
	Harald Wolff as Sekretär der englischen Delegation Collins

Crew