''My Son the Minister'' (German: ''Mein Sohn, der Herr Minister'') is a 1937 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

Veit Harlan Veit Harlan (22 September 1899 – 13 April 1964) was a German film director and actor. Harlan reached the highpoint of his career as a director in the Nazi era; most notably his antisemitic film ''Jud Süß'' (1940) makes him controversial ...

and starring

Hans Brausewetter Hans Brausewetter (27 May 1899 – 29 April 1945) was a German stage and film actor of the silent era. He appeared in more than 130 films between 1922 and 1945. He appeared in the 1923 film '' The Treasure'', which was directed by Georg Wil ...

Heli Finkenzeller Heli Finkenzeller (17 November 1914Friedemann, Beyer (1992)''Die Gesichter der UFA: Starportraits einer Epoche'' München: Wilhelm Heyne Verlag. Page 46. . – 14 January 1991) was a German actress. She appeared in more than 80 films and tel ...

and

Françoise Rosay Françoise Rosay (; born Françoise Bandy de Nalèche; 19 April 1891 – 28 March 1974) was a French opera singer, diseuse,''Design'', Volume 9 1965 p. 24 and actress who enjoyed a film career of over sixty years and who became a legendary figure ...

.Bock & Bergfelder p.11 The film's sets were designed by the

art director Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film industry, film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...

Franz Koehn Franz Koehn was a German art director. He worked designing sets for the Cinema of Germany, German film industry, mainly during the Nazi era.Giesen p.214 Selected filmography * ''The Private Secretary (1931 German film), The Private Secretary'' (1 ...

and

Walter Röhrig Walter Röhrig (13 April 1897 – 1945) was a German art director.Stephens p.163 Selected filmography * '' The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari'' (1920) * ''Masks'' (1920) * ''Parisian Women'' (1921) * '' Island of the Dead'' (1921) * ''Miss Julie'' (192 ...

. 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 ...

Potsdam Potsdam () is the capital and, with around 183,000 inhabitants, largest city of the German state of Brandenburg. It is part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. Potsdam sits on the River Havel, a tributary of the Elbe, downstream of B ...

Cast

as Robert Fabre-Marines *

as Nannette - seine Frau *

as Sylvie - seine Mutter * Hans Moser as Gabriel Fabre * Paul Dahlke as Vaccarés *

Hadrian Maria Netto Hadrian Maria Netto (1885–1947) was a German stage and film actor.Giesen p.228 He was also a playwright. Selected filmography * '' A Woman for 24 Hours'' (1925) * ''Destiny'' (1925) * '' The Armoured Vault'' (1926) * ''Love in the Cowshed'' (19 ...

as Ministerpresident *

Carl Jönsson Carl Jönsson (1870–1949) was a German stage actor. He also appeared in films during the 1920s and 1930s.Das Ufa-Buch p.354 Selected filmography * '' Friedrich Schiller'' (1923) * '' The Enchantress'' (1924) * '' The Love Trap'' (1925) * ''Thr ...

as Aristide - Diener im Ministerium *

Hilde Körber Hilde Körber (3 July 1906 – 31 May 1969) was an Austrian film actress who worked largely in the German Film Industry. She appeared in 53 films between 1930 and 1964. She was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary and died in West Berlin, West Ge ...

as Betty Joinville *

Aribert Wäscher Aribert Wäscher (1 December 1895 – 14 December 1961) was a German film actor. Selected filmography * '' The Black Tulip Festival'' (1920) * ''The Graveyard of the Living'' (1921) * ''Slums of Berlin'' (1925) * ''The Hanseatics'' (1925) * '' T ...

as Baroche *

Bruno Ziener Bruno Ziener (11 June 1870 – 9 February 1941) was a German stage and film actor and director. He appeared in over 100 films between 1913 and 1941. He also directed 28 silent films such as '' The Flight into Death'' (1921).Grange p. 95 Selected ...

as Pierre, Diener *

Carl Auen Carl Theodor Auen (16 February 1892 – 23 June 1972) was a German film actor of the silent era. He appeared in more than 110 films between 1914 and 1938. Auen was a member of the Militant League for German Culture and also a member of the ...

as Ein Zeitungsreporter *

Josef Dahmen Josef Dahmen (21 August 1903 – 18 January 1985) was a German stage, film and television actor.Youngkin p. 462. Dahmen was married to the actress Gisela von Collande, with whom he had a daughter Andrea Dahmen. His granddaughter Julia Dahmen is a ...

as Ein revolutionärer Zwischenrufer *

Angelo Ferrari Angelo Ferrari (14 August 1897 – 15 June 1945) was an Italian actor known for his work in German cinema. Selected filmography * ''The Nude Woman'' (1922) * ''The Green Manuela'' (1923) * ''Samson'' (1923) * '' The Faces of Love'' (1924) * ''Pr ...

as Ein Hauptmann * Charles Francois as Ein Kellner bei der Soirée *

Illo Gutschwager Illo is a town in Kebbi State, Nigeria. Pre-colonial history Illo was one of the Northern Borgu Kingdoms, small but wealthy, and it fought a number of wars with its neighbors in the nineteenth century including the Samba War and conflicts with Gw ...

as Anwesender bei der politischen Versammlung der 'Roten' * Hermann Meyer-Falkow as Plizist vor dem Ministerium *

Leo Peukert Leonhard "Leo" Peukert (26 August 1885 – 6 January 1944) was a prolific German film actor and film director, appearing in more than a hundred and fifty productions between 1910 and his death in 1944. While occasionally he played a leading role i ...

as Kabarett-Direktor * Walter Schramm-Duncker as Portier im Ministerium *

Achim von Biel Achim (; Northern Low Saxon: ''Achem''), commonly Achim bei Bremen, is a municipality and the largest town (population 30,059 in December 2006) in the district of Verden, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the right bank of the Weser, a ...

as Gast der Soirée im Kulturministerium *

Erika Raphael Erika may refer to: Arts and Entertainment * Hayasaka Erika (''Megatokyo)'' * Erika (''Friends'') * Erika (''Pokémon'') * Erika (''Underworld'') * Erika Itsumi ''(Girls und Panzer)'' * ''Erika'' (film), a 1971 Italian thriller film * "E ...

Rudolf Klicks Rudolf Klicks (21 May 1917 – 5 September 1997) was a German film actor.Koster p.116 Selected filmography * '' Tannenberg'' (1932) * '' Girls of Today'' (1933) * '' The Riders of German East Africa'' (1934) * ''The Champion of Pontresina'' (1934 ...

Wolfgang Dohnberg Wolfgang is a German male given name traditionally popular in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The name is a combination of the Old High German words ''wolf'', meaning "wolf", and ''gang'', meaning "path", "journey", "travel". Besides the regula ...

Fred Köster Fred may refer to: People * Fred (name), including a list of people and characters with the name Mononym * Fred (cartoonist) (1931–2013), pen name of Fred Othon Aristidès, French * Fred (footballer, born 1949) (1949–2022), Frederico Rodr ...

* Annie Lorenz * Martha von Konssatzki

References

Bibliography

* Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009. * Noack, Frank. ''Veit Harlan: The Life and Work of a Nazi Filmmaker''. University Press of Kentucky, 2016.

External links

* 1937 films 1937 comedy-drama films German comedy-drama films Films of Nazi Germany 1930s German-language films Films directed by Veit Harlan German black-and-white films UFA GmbH films Films shot at Babelsberg Studios German films based on plays Films set in Paris 1930s German films {{1930s-Germany-film-stub