''My Aunt, Your Aunt'' (german: Meine Tante – deine Tante) is a 1939 German
comedy film
A comedy film is a category of film which emphasizes humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement. Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending (black comedy being an exception). Comedy is one of the ol ...
directed by
Carl Boese
Carl Eduard Hermann Boese (; 26 August 1887 – 6 July 1958) was a German film director, screenwriter, and film producer, producer. He directed 158 films between 1917 and 1957.
Selected filmography
* ''Farmer Borchardt'' (1917)
* ''Donna Lucia ...
and starring
Ralph Arthur Roberts
Ralph Arthur Roberts (born Robert Arthur Schönherr; 2 October 1884 – 12 March 1940)[Johannes Heesters
Johan Marius Nicolaas Heesters (5 December 1903 – 24 December 2011), known professionally as Johannes Heesters, was a Dutch actor of stage, television and film, as well as a vocalist of numerous recordings and performer on the concert stag ...]
, and
Olly Holzmann
Olly Holzmann (1915–1995) was an Austrian dancer and film actress.Dassanowsky p.98 During the Second World War years, she appeared in films made by Wien-Film.
Selected filmography
* ''Hotel Sacher'' (1939)
* '' A Mother's Love'' (1939)
* ''Woma ...
.
[Bock & Bergfelder p. 191] It was shot at the
Babelsberg Studios
Babelsberg Film Studio (german: Filmstudio Babelsberg), located in Potsdam-Babelsberg outside Berlin, Germany, is the second oldest large-scale film studio in the world only preceded by the Danish Nordisk Film (est. 1906), producing films since ...
in
Berlin
Berlin ( , ) is the capital and List of cities in Germany by population, largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's List of cities in the European Union by population within ci ...
. The film's sets were designed by the
art director Ernst H. Albrecht. Boese later directed a 1956
film of the same title.
Cast
References
Bibliography
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1939 films
1939 comedy films
Films of Nazi Germany
German comedy films
1930s German-language films
Films directed by Carl Boese
UFA GmbH films
German black-and-white films
1930s German films
Films shot at Babelsberg Studios
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