The Uncle from America
1953 film
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German | Der Onkel aus Amerika |
Directed by | Carl Boese |
Written by | Ferdinand Altenkirch (play) Curth Flatow Peter Paulsen |
Produced by | Artur Brauner Heinz Laaser |
Starring | Hans Moser Georg Thomalla Joe Stöckel |
Cinematography | Albert Benitz |
Edited by | Johanna Meisel |
Music by | Lotar Olias |
Production company | CCC Film |
Distributed by | Prisma Film |
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Running time | 98 minutes |
Country | West Germany |
Language | German |
The Uncle from America (German: Der Onkel aus Amerika) is a 1953 West German comedy film directed by Carl Boese and starring Hans Moser, Georg Thomalla and Joe Stöckel.[1] It was based on a play by Ferdinand Altenkirch which had previously been made into the 1932 film No Money Needed.[2] It was shot at the Spandau Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art director Erich Grave and Walter Kutz.
Cast
- Hans Moser as Thomas Theodor Hoffmann
- Georg Thomalla as Bodo Schmidt
- Joe Stöckel as Bankdirektor Brenner
- Grethe Weiser as Gertrud Hartung
- Waltraut Haas as Elisabeth Hartung
- Ethel Reschke as Elli, Sekretärin
- Ruth Stephan as Rosa, Dienstmädchen
- Arno Paulsen as Hermann Hartung
- Walter Gross as Haberland, Gerichtsvollzieher
- Wolfgang Neuss as Conferencier
- Joe Furtner
- Herbert Kiper as Rottmann, Sparkassendirektor
- Gert Kollat as Geissler, Hoteldirektor
- Ernst Sattler as Bürgermeister
- Erhard Ey-Steineck as Berndorf, Fabrikant
- Herbert Weissbach as Dr. Ernst
- Jur Arten
- Sunshine Quartett as singer
- Horst Winter as singer
- Agnes Windeck as Telefonpartner in England
References
- ^ Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. p. 519. ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9.
- ^ Goble p.7
Bibliography
- Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
External links
- The Uncle from America at IMDb
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Films directed by Carl Boese
- Nocturne of Love (1919)
- The Devil and the Madonna (1919)
- The Geisha and the Samurai (1919)
- The Golem (1920)
- The Dancer Barberina (1920)
- Three Nights (1920)
- The Song of the Puszta (1920)
- Blackmailed (1920)
- Ships and People (1920)
- The Raft of the Dead (1921)
- The Shadow of Gaby Leed (1921)
- The Terror of the Red Mill (1921)
- The Unwritten Law (1922)
- Count Cohn (1923)
- Maciste and the Chinese Chest (1923)
- The Woman in Flames (1924)
- Slaves of Love (1924)
- Three Waiting Maids (1925)
- If You Have an Aunt (1925)
- The Iron Bride (1925)
- The Marriage Swindler (1925)
- War in Peace (1925)
- The Man Without Sleep (1926)
- Kubinke the Barber (1926)
- Give My Regards to the Blonde Child on the Rhine (1926)
- The Trumpets are Blowing (1926)
- Unmarried Daughters (1926)
- The Sea Cadet (1926)
- The Last Horse Carriage in Berlin (1926)
- Nanette Makes Everything (1926)
- Tough Guys, Easy Girls (1927)
- The Indiscreet Woman (1927)
- The Eleven Devils (1927)
- The White Spider (1927)
- Sir or Madam (1928)
- Eva in Silk (1928)
- Lemke's Widow (1928)
- When the Mother and the Daughter (1928)
- The Page Boy at the Golden Lion (1928)
- Painted Youth (1929)
- Children of the Street (1929)
- Bobby, the Petrol Boy (1929)
- Marriage Strike (1930)
- Three Days Confined to Barracks (1930)
- Rendezvous (1930)
- Grock (1931)
- The Soaring Maiden (1931)
- Duty Is Duty (1931)
- Without Meyer, No Celebration is Complete (1931)
- My Cousin from Warsaw (1931)
- Terror of the Garrison (1931)
- The Unfaithful Eckehart (1931)
- No Money Needed (1932)
- The Cheeky Devil (1932)
- You Will Be My Wife (1932)
- Annemarie, the Bride of the Company (1932)
- Paprika (1932)
- Greetings and Kisses, Veronika (1933)
- Paprika (1933)
- The Sandwich Girl (1933)
- A Woman Like You (1933)
- Gretel Wins First Prize (1933)
- The Gentleman from Maxim's (1933)
- Three Bluejackets and a Blonde (1933)
- Homecoming to Happiness (1933)
- The Flower Girl from the Grand Hotel (1934)
- The Lucky Diamond (1934)
- Hearts Are Trumps (1934)
- Miss Madame (1934)
- Bashful Felix (1934)
- The King's Prisoner (1935)
- Back in the Country (1936)
- A Diplomatic Wife (1937)
- Adventure in Warsaw (1938)
- Five Million Look for an Heir (1938)
- Hello Janine! (1939)
- Three Fathers for Anna (1939)
- My Aunt, Your Aunt (1939)
- Everything for Gloria (1941)
- The Brambilla Family Go on Holiday (1941)
- The Wedding Hotel (1944)
- When Men Cheat (1950)
- The Chaste Libertine (1952)
- The Uncle from America (1953)
- Josef the Chaste (1953)
- The Bogeyman (1953)
- The Spanish Fly (1955)
- My Aunt, Your Aunt (1956)
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