Movie: If the Father and the Son

Top 10 Billed Cast

Heinz Rühmann
Heinz Rühmann

Teddy Lemke

Oliver Grimm
Oliver Grimm

Ulli

Waltraut Haas
Waltraut Haas

Gerti

Robert Freitag
Robert Freitag

Roy Bentley

Pero Alexander
Pero Alexander

Donald Crossman

Fita Benkhoff
Fita Benkhoff

Miss Biermann

Carl-Heinz Schroth
Carl-Heinz Schroth

Peepe

Rudolf Schündler
Rudolf Schündler

Man in the store

Sybil Werden
Sybil Werden

Jane Bentley

Herbert Kiper
Herbert Kiper

Agent Miller

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    After Clown Teddy lost his son, he lost his gift for laughter. He opened a joke shop and lives above the shop. His landlady has had a foster son since birth, and Teddy decides to raise the child, who always believed that Teddy was his father. When the mother suddenly appears five years later and wants her son, Teddy decides to run away with the child and goes back onstage with his son. Will the family catch up with them, or will the mother never get her son back?

  • Release Date

    1955-08-01

  • Average

    6.556

  • Rating:

    3.3 starts
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  • Languages:

    Deutsch
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