''My Daughter, Your Daughter'' (German: ''Meine Tochter – Deine Tochter'') is a 1972 West German

comedy film The comedy film is a film genre that emphasizes humor. These films are designed to amuse audiences and make them laugh. Films in this genre typically have a happy ending, with dark comedy being an exception to this rule. Comedy is one of the o ...

directed by

Werner Jacobs Werner Jacobs (1909–1999) was a German film director and film editor, editor. He was born in Berlin on the 24 April 1909. He is best known for his contributions to Modebummel (1951), Der Stern von Santa Clara (1958) and André und Ursula (1955). ...

and starring Chris Roberts,

Georg Thomalla Georg Thomalla (14 February 1915 – 25 August 1999) was a German actor. He appeared in about one hundred fifty film and television productions between 1939 and 2000 and was widely known in Germany for his comedic roles. Thomalla was well known ...

and

Peter Weck Peter Weck (born 12 August 1930) is an Austrian film director and actor. In addition to his about 130 film and television acting credits between 1954 and 2015, he worked as a director on more than 50 productions between 1969 and 2007. Biography ...

.Bock & Bergfelder p.269

Location shooting Location shooting is the shooting of a film or television production in a real-world setting rather than a sound stage or backlot. The location may be interior or exterior. When filmmaking professionals refer to shooting "on location", they are ...

took place in

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, particularly around the

Wörthersee Wörthersee (; Slovene: ''Vrbsko jezero'', ) is a lake in the southern Austrian state of Carinthia. The bathing lake is a main tourist destination in summer. Geography Wörthersee is Carinthia's largest lake. It is elongated, about long and ...

. A teacher at a German school is persuaded to impersonate the father of the caretaker's daughter visiting from America, leading to a series of complications.

Cast

* Chris Roberts as Rick Roland *

Studienrat Studienrat (abbreviated StR) is an official title/rank of higher teachers in the German and Austrian education system. Even though the German and Austrian education systems use the same term, there are differences in the level and usage of this rank ...

Dr. Oskar Sommer *

Staub * Catharina Conti as Lisbeth Sommer * Hans Kraus as Edi Rausch *

Ralf Wolter Ralf Wolter (26 November 1926 – 14 October 2022) was a German stage and screen actor. Wolter appeared in nearly 220 films and television series in his over 60 years as a character actor. Life and career Wolter began his long career on the B ...

as Bibo * Silvia Reize as Betty Snell *

Gretl Schörg Gretl Schörg (17 January 1914 – 4 January 2006) was an Austrian operatic soprano and actress. She was particularly known for her performances in operettas. Her signature roles included Dodo in '' Wedding Night in Paradise'', Josepha Vogelhube ...

as Schuldirektorin Regina Körner * Heinrich Schweiger as Polizeihauptmann Rausch *

Rainer Basedow Rainer Basedow (20 May 1938 – 15 May 2022) was a German film, television, and voice actor. He is known for having provided the voice of Pumbaa in the German dub of ''The Lion King'' franchise, up until his replacement with Jürgen Kluckert in ...

as Rolf * Kurt Nachmann as Schulrat Weber *

Erich Kleiber Erich Kleiber (5 August 1890 – 27 January 1956) was an Austrian, later Argentine, conductor, known for his interpretations of the classics and as an advocate of Neue Musik. Kleiber was born in Vienna, and after studying at the Prague Conser ...

as Bassist * Gila von Weitershausen as Hella Mattes * Heinz Reincke as Schuldiener Oskar Sommer

References

Bibliography

* Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009.

External links

* 1972 films 1972 comedy films German comedy films West German films 1970s German-language films Films directed by Werner Jacobs Gloria Film films 1970s German films {{1970s-comedy-film-stub