''The Old Forester House'' (german: Das alte Försterhaus) is a 1956 West 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

Harald Philipp Harald Philipp (1921–1999) was a German film director, screenwriter and actor. Selected filmography * '' The Old Forester House'' (1956) * '' The Csardas King'' (1958) * ''A Thousand Stars Aglitter'' (1959) * ' (1960) * '' Brandenburg Division ...

and starring

Paul Klinger Paul Karl Heinrich Klinksik (14 June 1907, Essen – 14 November 1971, Munich) was a German stage and film actor who also worked in radio drama and soundtrack dubbing. Family life His father, a civil engineer, was Karl Heinrich Klinksik; his mot ...

Anita Gutwell Anita Gutwell (later Nussgruber, 14 November 1931 – 5 January 2022) was an Austrian actress who was a leading lady in 1950s classic films. Personal life and death She was married to director Rudolf Nussgruber until his death in 2001. Gutwell ...

and

Trude Hesterberg Trude Hesterberg (2 May 1892 – 31 August 1967) was a German film actress. She appeared in 89 films between 1917 and 1964. Selected filmography * ''The Rosentopf Case'' (1918) * '' The Story of a Maid'' (1921) * ''Fridericus Rex'' (1922) ...

. It was part of the post-war cycle of

heimatfilm ' (, German for "homeland-films"; German singular: ') were films of a genre popular in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria from the late 1940s to the early 1960s. ''Heimat'' can be translated as "home" (in the geographic sense), "hometown" or "homela ...

.Davidson & Hake p. 201 The film's sets were designed by

Mathias Matthies Mathias Matthies (August 7, 1911 – September 30, 2004) was a German art director. He designed the sets for around a hundred films and television programmes. He often collaborated with his wife Ellen Schmidt, including on some Edgar Wallace ada ...

Cast

References

Bibliography

* Davidson, John & Hake, Sabine. ''Framing the Fifties: Cinema in a Divided Germany''. Berghahn Books, 2007.

External links

* 1956 films West German films German musical drama films 1950s musical drama films 1950s German-language films Films directed by Harald Philipp 1956 drama films 1950s German films {{musical-drama-film-stub