''New Year's Eve Punch'' (german: Silvesterpunsch) is a 1960 East German

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directed by

Günter Reisch Günter Reisch (24 November 1927 – 24 February 2014) was a German film director and screenwriter. He served in the German Army during the last stage of World War II. On 20 April 1944 he became a member of the Nazi Party. After his release from a ...

and starring

Erich Franz Erich Franz (5 November 1903 – 10 February 1961) was a German actor. He appeared in more than thirty East German East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country ...

, Friedel Nowack and Erika Dunkelmann.Koepnick p.72 It was made by the state-owned DEFA company. It is a sequel to the 1959 film '' The Punch Bowl''.

Cast

as Wilhelm Lehmann * Friedel Nowack as Auguste Lehmann * Erika Dunkelmann as Marion Lehmann * Christel Bodenstein as Suse Lehmann * Heinz Draehn as Franz Lehmann * Achim Schmidtchen as Michel Lehmann *

Ernst-Georg Schwill Ernst-Georg Schwill (30 March 1939 - 9 April 2020) was a German actor, best known for his performance as ''Kohle'' in the 1957 film ''Berlin, Schoenhauser Corner'' and as ''Lutz Weber'' in ''Tatort ''Tatort'' ("Crime scene") is a German la ...

as Knispel * Karin Schröder as Ruth * Wolfgang Roeder as Wolfgang * Eberhard Keyn as Eberhard *

Erich Weber Erich Paul Weber (born 12 September 1860 in Kamen; died 29 October 1933 in Berlin) was a German army officer, who served in both the German Imperial Army and the Ottoman Army during World War I, and ultimately attained the rank of General of Infan ...

as Erich *

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as Hannes *

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as Otto * Otto Busse as Karl * Herbert Sturm as Herbert * Edward Selz as Siggi * Hubert Hoelzke as Egon Scheibe * Gustav Müller as Erwin Lüttger * Günter Rüger as Willibald Schmal *

Kurt Rackelmann Kurt is a male given name of Germanic or Turkish origin. ''Kurt'' or ''Curt'' originated as short forms of the Germanic Conrad, depending on geographical usage, with meanings including counselor or advisor. In Turkish, Kurt means "Wolf" and i ...

as Briefträger Pätsch * Rudolf Christoph as Werkleiter *

Heinz Quermann The H. J. Heinz Company is an American food processing company headquartered at One PPG Place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The company was founded by Henry J. Heinz in 1869. Heinz manufactures thousands of food products in plants on six contine ...

as Reporter *

Heinz Scholz The H. J. Heinz Company is an American food processing company headquartered at One PPG Place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The company was founded by Henry J. Heinz in 1869. Heinz manufactures thousands of food products in plants on six contine ...

as Objektleiter *

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as Lämmermeier * Maria Alexander as Sängerin * Maika Joseph as Garderobenfrau *

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as Kassierer an der Box-Kasse * Joachim Zschocke as Verkehrspolizist * Monika Bergen as Chemiemädchen

References

Bibliography

* Lutz Peter Koepnick. ''The Cosmopolitan Screen: German Cinema and the Global Imaginary, 1945 to the Present''. University of Michigan Press, 2007.

External links

* 1960 films German sequel films East German films German musical films 1960 musical films 1960s German-language films Films directed by Günter Reisch 1960s German films {{musical-film-stub