How Do We Tell Our Children? (German: Wie sagen wir es unseren Kindern?) is a 1944 German comedy film directed by Hans Deppe and starring Leny Marenbach, Mathias Wieman and Hilde Körber.[1] Made by the major German studio UFA, the film was not released until 21 December 1949 in Berlin and 13 March 1951 in Austria.[2]
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| Directed by | Hans Deppe |
| Written by | |
| Produced by | Erich Holder |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Robert Baberske |
| Music by | Hans-Otto Borgmann |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Stern-Film Verleih |
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Running time | 89 minutes |
| Country | Germany |
| Language | German |
The film's sets were designed by the art director Wilhelm Vorwerg. Shooting took place in the Babelsberg Studios and on location in Dresden and Switzerland.
Synopsis
editIn a suburb of Dresden, a widowed doctor with four children lives opposite a divorcee with three children. Gradually they fall in love despite the constant feuding between their children.
Cast
edit- Leny Marenbach as Käthe Westhoff
- Mathias Wieman as Dr. Thomas Hofer
- Hilde Körber as Adele
- Ernst Waldow as Diesing
- Babsi Schultz-Reckewell as Sigrid
- Edmund van Kann as Klaus
- Jürgen Tusch as Wölfchen
- Hans-Dieter Gotzmann as Erich
- Herbert Stetza as Theo
- Hans Neie as Kurt
- Jürgen Peter Jacoby as Pepi
- Franz Schafheitlin
- Alexa von Porembsky
See also
editReferences
editBibliography
edit- Holmstrom, John. The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995, Norwich, Michael Russell, 1996.
- Rentschler, Eric. The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife. Harvard University Press, 1996.
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