''His Best Friend'' (german: Sein bester Freund) is a 1962 West German

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super ...

directed by Luis Trenker and starring

Toni Sailer Anton Engelbert "Toni" Sailer (17 November 1935 – 24 August 2009) was an Austrian alpine ski racer, considered among the best in the sport. At age 20, he won all three gold medals in alpine skiing at the 1956 Winter Olympics. He nearly duplica ...

Dietmar Schönherr Dietmar Otto Schönherr (; 17 May 1926 – 18 July 2014) was an Austrian film actor. He appeared in 120 films between 1944 and 2014. He was famous for playing the role of Major Cliff Allister McLane in the German science fiction series '' Rau ...

and Hilti von Allmen.Elsaesser & Wedel p.235

Cast

as Peter Haller *

as Marius Melichar * Hilti von Allmen as Anderl Burri * Hans Nielsen as Direktor Imhoff * Elke Roesler as Clarissa, seine Tochter * Carmela Corren as Judith Gerlach *

Peer Schmidt Peer Eugen Georg Schmidt (11 March 1926; Erfurt, Weimar Germany – 8 May 2010; Berlin) was a German actor who specialized in films, television and dubbing. He is best known as the German voice of Gérard Philipe, Marlon Brando and Jean-Paul Bel ...

as Pat Nicot * Hans Richter as Max *

Franz Muxeneder Franz Muxeneder (19 October 1920 - 3 January 1988) was an Austrian actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1948 to 1987. Muxeneder is best known in Great Britain for his part in the Yugoslav-German television series ''The White Hor ...

as Paul *

Rudolf Platte Rudolf Antonius Heinrich Platte (12 February 1904 – 18 December 1984) was a German actor. Biography Born in Hörde, Westphalia (today part of Dortmund) the son of a merchant, his family moved to Hildesheim three years later. Rudolf left sc ...

as Köhler *

Paul Westermeier Paul Westermeier (9 July 1892 – 17 October 1972) was a German film actor. Selected filmography * '' Wedding in the Eccentric Club'' (1917) * '' Agnes Arnau and Her Three Suitors'' (1918) * '' About the Son'' (1921) * '' Memoirs of a Film Act ...

* Fritz Gertsch * Gaby Banschenbach * Luis Trenker

References

Bibliography

* Thomas Elsaesser & Michael Wedel. ''The BFI companion to German cinema''. British Film Institute, 1999.

External links

* 1962 films West German films German drama films 1962 drama films 1960s German-language films Films directed by Luis Trenker Mountaineering films Films set in Switzerland Films set in the Alps 1960s German films {{1960s-Germany-film-stub