''The Mimosa Wants to Blossom Too'' (German: ''Auch Mimosen wollen blühen'') is a 1976 West German
comedy
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spy film
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directed by
Helmut Meewes Helmut is a German name. Variants include Hellmut, Helmuth, and Hellmuth.
From old German, the first element deriving from either ''heil'' ("healthy") or ''hiltja'' ("battle"), and the second from ''muot'' ("spirit, mind, mood").
Helmut may ref ...
and starring
Curd Jürgens
Curd Gustav Andreas Gottlieb Franz Jürgens (13 December 191518 June 1982) was a German-Austrian stage and film actor. He was usually billed in English-speaking films as Curt Jurgens. He was well known for playing Ernst Udet in ''Des Teufels Gener ...
,
Eric Pohlmann
Eric Pohlmann (german: Erich Pohlmann; born Erich Pollak; 18 July 1913 – 25 July 1979) was an Austrian theatre, film and television character actor who worked mostly in the United Kingdom. He is known for voicing Ernst Stavro Blofeld, th ...
and
Horst Frank
Horst Frank (28 May 1929 – 25 May 1999) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1955 and 1999. He was born in Lübeck, Germany and died in Heidelberg, Germany.
Selected filmography
* ''Der Stern von Afrika'' (19 ...
.
[Bock & Bergfelder p.131]
The film's sets were designed by the
art director
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It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...
Peter Rothe
Peter Rothe (born 1935) is a German art director who worked designing sets in the German film and television industries.World Filmography: 1967 p.149 He worked on a number of production by Wolf C. Hartwig's Rapid Film during the 1970s.
Selected ...
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Cast
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Curd Jürgens
Curd Gustav Andreas Gottlieb Franz Jürgens (13 December 191518 June 1982) was a German-Austrian stage and film actor. He was usually billed in English-speaking films as Curt Jurgens. He was well known for playing Ernst Udet in ''Des Teufels Gener ...
as Josef Popov
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Eric Pohlmann
Eric Pohlmann (german: Erich Pohlmann; born Erich Pollak; 18 July 1913 – 25 July 1979) was an Austrian theatre, film and television character actor who worked mostly in the United Kingdom. He is known for voicing Ernst Stavro Blofeld, th ...
as Iwan Pederenko
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Horst Frank
Horst Frank (28 May 1929 – 25 May 1999) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1955 and 1999. He was born in Lübeck, Germany and died in Heidelberg, Germany.
Selected filmography
* ''Der Stern von Afrika'' (19 ...
as Oberst Oschenko
*
Susi Nicoletti
Susi Nicoletti (3 September 1918 – 5 June 2005) was a Bavarian-born actress best remembered today for over 100 supporting roles mostly in comedy films. She was born as Susanne Emilie Luise Adele Habersack in Munich, but spent most of her childh ...
as Emily Hopkins
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Heinz Reincke
Karl-Heinz Reincke (28 May 1925 – 13 July 2011) was a German-born actor, long-based in Vienna.
Selected filmography
Films
*'' A Heart Returns Home'' (1956) - Besselmann
*''Confessions of Felix Krull'' (1957) - Stanko
*''Tolle Nacht'' (1957) ...
as Obdachloser
*
Barbara Nielsen
Barbara Nielsen (born 21 September 1949), is a Dutch people, Dutch actress.
Filmography
References
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1949 births
Living people
Dutch film actresses
Dutch television actresses
20th-century Dutch actresses
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as Ludmilla
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Chiquita Gordon
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as Miss Ly
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Erich Padalewski
Erich Padalewski (1930–2018) was an Austrian stage, film and television actor.Schliesser & Moser p.83
Selected filmography
* ''Dance with Me Into the Morning'' (1962)
* ''Our Crazy Nieces'' (1963)
* ''Don't Fool with Me'' (1963)
* '' Call of th ...
as Mr. Gate
*
Ljuba Welitsch
Ljuba Welitsch (''Veličkova''; bg, Люба Величкова 10 July 1913 – 1 September 1996) was an operatic soprano. She was born in Borisovo, Bulgaria, studied in Sofia and Vienna, and sang in opera houses in Austria and Germany in ...
as Lady Shots
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Harry Hardt
Harry Hardt (born Hermann Karl Viktor Klimbacher Edler von Reichswahr, Pula, 4 August 1899 – Vienna, 14 November 1980) was an Austrian actor. The son of a military officer, he initially planned a military career for himself, studying at a mil ...
as Sir Shots
References
Bibliography
* Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009.
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1976 films
1970s spy comedy films
German spy comedy films
West German films
1970s German-language films
Films directed by Helmut Meewes
Cold War spy films
Constantin Film films
1976 comedy films
1970s German films
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