Für die Katz' (1940)
He who loves, torments himself: This turn of phrase works for the big farmer Gerd Tapken and his landlady Katrin Geerken. For more than 30 years, the two have fought at every opportunity, although they secretly love one another. But things seem to have come to a serious breach when Tapken shoots Katrin’s cat, because it allegedly ate three of his hens. The woman is so enraged over this brutality, that she contacts her lawyer. Thus begins a court case, in which the farmer might be fined or even go to jail!
Director: Hermann Pfeiffer
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Hilde Jansen as Meta Geerken |
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Axel Monjé as Peter Tapken |
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Lina Carstens as Katrin Geerken |
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Carsta Löck as Magd Fieken |
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Rudolf Platte as Knecht Frerk |
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Eduard von Winterstein as Gerd Tapken |
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Paul Westermeier as Rechtsberater Mählmann |
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Christa Siems as Lena Tapken |
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Alfred Maack as |
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Ernst Waldow as Hannes Kruse |
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Fritz Hoopts as Piephohn |
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Eduard Wenck as Schütt |
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Karl Dannemann as Hinrich Tapken |
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Wilhelm P. Krüger as |
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Walter Bechmann as |
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Wilhelm Egger-Sell as |
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Wilhelm Große as |
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Friedrich Honna as |
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Erhart Stettner as Vereinsmitglied |
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Dorothea Thiess as |
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Willy Witte as |
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Paula Lepa as |
| Directing | Hermann Pfeiffer | Director |