An Old Heart Becomes Young Again (1943)
All throughout his entire life, Friedrich Wilhelm Hoffmann let his career run roughshod over his personal life. He had no wife, because he was married instead to his chocolate factory. Now he’s old and gray, and his relatives, who are greedily waiting for him to kick the bucket so they can get their hands on his worldly goods, keep their distance from him. Then one day, an astonished Hoffmann is visited by a young woman named Brigitte, who asserts, that she’s his granddaughter. Suddenly, it all comes back to the old man: as a young man, he had a short, but intense, love affair, which he had to end on the insistence of his father.
Director:
Erich Engel
Writer:
Lotte Neumann
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Emil Jannings as Friedrich Hoffmann, Seniorchef |
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Viktor de Kowa as Dr. Paul Dehnhardt, sein Neffe |
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Maria Landrock as Brigitte Lüders, Hoffmanns Enkelin |
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Will Dohm as Heinrich Hoffmann, Friedrichs Neffe |
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Elisabeth Flickenschildt as Jenny Hoffmann, seine Frau |
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Harald Paulsen as Richard Lorenz, Friedrich Hoffmanns Neffe |
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Roma Bahn as Irene Lorenz, seine Frau |
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Paul Hubschmid as Willibald Mack |
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Margit Symo as Ilona Halmos |
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Paul Henckels as Justizrat Flinth |
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Max Gülstorff as Professor Tiburzius |
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Renée Stobrawa as Frau Wendisch |
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Ilse Petri as Lotte Wendisch, ihre Tochter |
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Lucie Höflich as Frau Blume, Vermieterin |
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Hans Junkermann as Diener Windel |
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Käte Alving as Fabrikangestellte |
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Erich Dunskus as Hoffmanns Chauffeur |
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Karl Hannemann as Hoffmanns Diener |
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Ilse Fürstenberg as Portiersfrau |
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Gerta Böttcher as Richards Tochter Lilo Lorenz |
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Katarina Boenisch as Desdemona |
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Gerda Dunker as Eine Freundin Brigittes, die bei Friedrich tanzt |
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Eva Ernst as Eine Freundin Brigittes, die bei Friedrich tanzt |
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Angelo Ferrari as Ilona Halmos' Begleiter am Bahnhof |
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Ursula Fornelli as Eine Freundin Brigittes, die bei Friedrich tanzt |
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Herbert Gernot as Friedrichs Privatsekretär |
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Hanni Hartwig as Eine Freundin Brigittes, die bei Friedrich tanzt |
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Knut Hartwig as |
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Helmuth Helsig as Bit Part |
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Alfred Karen as Operngast |
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Tiana Lemnitz as Opernsängerin |
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Max Lorenz as Opernsänger |
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Lisca Malbran as Eine Freundin Brigittes, die bei Friedrich tanzt |
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Friedrich Maurer as Büroangestellter bei Friedrich 2 |
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Karl Morvilius as Büroangestellter bei Friedrich 1 |
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Inge Musehold as Eine Freundin Brigittes, die bei Friedrich tanzt |
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Klaus Pohl as Süsswarenverkaüfer am Bahnhof |
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Irmingard Schreiter as Eine Freundin Brigittes, die bei Friedrich tanzt |
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Fritz Soot as Othello |
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Walter Tarrach as Franz, der Diener bei Dr. Dehnhardt |
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Petra Unkel as Eine Freundin Brigittes, die bei Friedrich tanzt |
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Franz Weber as Logenschliesser in der Oper |
| Directing | Erich Engel | Director |
| Writing | Lotte Neumann | Screenplay |
| Writing | Maurus Pacher | Story |
| Writing | Walter Wassermann | Writer |