''Mamitschka'' is a 1955 West German

comedy-drama film Comedy drama, also known by the portmanteau ''dramedy'', is a genre of dramatic works that combines elements of comedy and drama. The modern, scripted-television examples tend to have more humorous bits than simple comic relief seen in a typical ...

directed by Rolf Thiele and starring

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and

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. It was shot at the

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and on location around Bamberg in

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. The film's sets were designed by the art director

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Plot

The film portrays the attempts of a family of Sudeten German refugees struggling to adjust to living in post-war Germany following their forced expulsion from Czechoslovakia. Eventually their daughter marries a soldier of the American occupying forces, himself of German descent, and the whole family emigrate to the United States.

Cast

as Mamitschka *

as Tatinek *

as Rosa *Karl Hackenber as Frantek *

Ida Krottendorf Ida Krottendorf (5 April 1927, in Ebreichsdorf – 23 June 1998, in Vienna) was an Austrian actress. She was married from 1955 to Austrian actor Ernst Stankovski and in the second marriage from 1960 until 1991 to Klausjürgen Wussow. Together th ...

as Nozena *

Evi Kent Evi Kent (born 1939) was a Czech-born German film actress, film, stage actress, stage and television actress and also enjoyed some success as a singer. She was born in Brünn in Czechoslovakia, shortly before it was German occupation of Czechos ...

as Olga *Dieter Thiele as Joseph *

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as Poldi *Robert Haller as Baldur *Klaus Behrendt as Wilborn *

Paul Henckels Paul Henckels (9 September 1885 – 27 May 1967) was a German film and stage actor. He appeared in more than 230 films between 1921 and 1965. Paul Henckels had started his acting career on the stage in the 1900s. He was well known for his e ...

as Herr Samhaber *Margarethe Andersen as Frau Samhaber *Irka Peter as Witwe Nickel *Kurt A. Jung as Herr Merkel *

Tilo von Berlepsch Tilo von Berlepsch (30 December 1913 – 8 April 1991) was a German actor. He appeared in more than 90 films and television shows between 1949 and 1977. He came from the Berlepsch family and was a grandson of the ornithologist Hans Hermann C ...

as Baron Hiebel *

Ursula Grabley Ursula Grabley (8 December 1908 – 3 April 1977) was a German actress. She appeared in more than 80 films and television shows between 1929 and 1977. Selected filmography * '' Katharina Knie'' (1929) * '' The Concert'' (1931) * '' That's ...

as Frau Hiebel *

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as Geschäftsführer *Ilse Künkele as Frau Duckheberle

References

External links

* 1955 comedy films German comedy films West German films Films directed by Rolf Thiele Films shot in Bavaria Films about refugees 1950s German-language films German black-and-white films 1950s German films Films shot at Göttingen Studios {{1950s-Germany-film-stub