Wenn der Vater mit dem Sohne

  • Heinz Riihmann: Teddy Lemke
  • Oliver Grimm: Ulli
  • Waltraud Haas: Gerti
  • Robert Freitag: Roy Bentley
  • Sybil Will: Jane Bentley
  • Fita Benkhoff: Miss Biermann
  • Carl -Heinz Schroth: PEEPe
  • Pero Alexander: Donald Crossman
  • Herbert Kiper: Agent Miller
  • Hans Schwarz: Samson
  • Rudolf Schündler: Men in the store
  • Heidi Becker: Helga
  • Arnim Dahl: Art Springer

If the father with the son is a German film from 1955, developed under the direction of Hans Quest with Heinz Rühmann in the lead role. The premiere took place on 12 August 1955 at the Ufa-Palast in Cologne.

Content

Teddy Lemke is a lodger at Miss Biermann. This has the six-year Ulli taken into care, whose mother emigrated to America. Teddy Lemke takes good care of the little Ulli, as if he were his own son. As Ulli surprised him with a children's clown costume, which he accidentally found in the attic, Teddy tells his life story hesitantly: He was formerly a famous clown who performed together with his son. When the boy died, Teddy finished his career.

Ulli edited Teddy until this returns to his clown role and occurs together with Ulli. You succeed, a commitment beckons. But because versa sweaters mother Gerti, who is now married, returned from America to bring their child. Teddy flees with the child from Berlin to Switzerland, pursued by the child, whose husband and agents of the mother. Her husband is Teddy, he holds first for the father of the child, to talk, but then recognize the true state of affairs. Ulli moved with his parents to America, and Teddy, who reluctantly comes to terms with it, are at the end of a solo performance.

Comments

The film made ​​the lullaby La -Le- Lu, only the man in the moon watches known to Heino Gaze. The song dates back to 1950, was Erstinterpret Bully Buhlan.

The film was Riihmann the opportunity to slip into his declared favorite role: that of a clown. He did this so well that the International Artistenloge awarded him the Golden needle artists - one for an "amateur" one-time award.

The same Austrian television series has nothing to do with the movie.

Reviews

  • "Lonesome power Heinz Rühmanns as vaudeville artists in a cheerful touching entertainment movie. " - Lexicon of international film
  • " Clear Stirring color film without further claim. " - 6000 movies. Critical Notes from the cinema from 1945 to 1958. Handbook V of the Catholic Film Critics, 3rd Edition, Publishing House Altenberg, Dusseldorf 1963, p 482
  • " Riihmann in one of his finest roles in the border area between laughing and crying (...). " ( Rating: 2 ½ stars = above average) - Adolf Meier Heinzl and Berndt Schulz in Lexicon " Movies on TV " ( Extended edition ). Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3, p 914

The Film Review Board Wiesbaden gave the production value the predicate.

1955 in film Screenplay Gustav Kampendonk Kurt Ulrich Film score Kurt Schulz (cinematographer) Hermann Leitner Sybil Werden Carl-Heinz Schroth
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