''Thirteen Old Donkeys'' (german: 13 kleine Esel und der Sonnenhof) is a 1958 West 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 o ...
directed by
Hans Deppe
Hans Deppe (; 12 November 1897 – 23 September 1969) was a German actor and film director.
Filmography
As director
As actor
References
External links
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1897 births
1969 deaths
German male film actors
German television dire ...
and starring
Hans Albers
Hans Philipp August Albers (22 September 1891 – 24 July 1960) was a German actor and singer. He was the biggest male movie star in Germany between 1930 and 1960 and one of the most popular German actors of the twentieth century.
Early life
...
,
Marianne Hoppe
Marianne Hoppe (26 April 1909 – 23 October 2002) was a German theatre and film actress.
Life and work
Born in Rostock, Hoppe became a leading lady of stage and films in Germany. She was born into a wealthy landowning family and was initiall ...
and
Karin Dor
Karin Dor (, born Kätherose Derr; 22 February 1938 – 6 November 2017) was a German actress. She was famous to international audiences for her role as Bond girl Helga Brandt in the James Bond film '' You Only Live Twice'' (1967) and her appear ...
.
[Bock & Bergfelder p.] It was one of the final performances of the veteran star Albers. It was made at the
Wandsbek Studios
The Wandsbek Studios are film production and television studios located in Wandsbek, a district of the German city of Hamburg.
The complex was established in 1948 when Real Film, set up the previous year, acquired a site in Wandsbek for constru ...
by the
Hamburg
Hamburg (, ; nds, label=Hamburg German, Low Saxon, Hamborg ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (german: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg; nds, label=Low Saxon, Friee un Hansestadt Hamborg),. is the List of cities in Germany by popul ...
-based
Real Film. The film's sets were designed by the
art directors
Mathias Matthies and
Ellen Schmidt.
Cast
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Hans Albers
Hans Philipp August Albers (22 September 1891 – 24 July 1960) was a German actor and singer. He was the biggest male movie star in Germany between 1930 and 1960 and one of the most popular German actors of the twentieth century.
Early life
...
as Josef Krapp
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Marianne Hoppe
Marianne Hoppe (26 April 1909 – 23 October 2002) was a German theatre and film actress.
Life and work
Born in Rostock, Hoppe became a leading lady of stage and films in Germany. She was born into a wealthy landowning family and was initiall ...
as Martha Krapp
*
Karin Dor
Karin Dor (, born Kätherose Derr; 22 February 1938 – 6 November 2017) was a German actress. She was famous to international audiences for her role as Bond girl Helga Brandt in the James Bond film '' You Only Live Twice'' (1967) and her appear ...
as Monika
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Gunnar Möller
Gunnar Möller (1 July 1928 – 16 May 2017) was a German television and film actor. He appeared in over 160 film and television productions between 1940 and 2016. He was most successful as a leading man in German cinema of the 1950s, especially ...
as Walter
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Günther Lüders
Günther Lüders (5 March 1905 – 1 March 1975) was a German actor. He appeared in more than 120 films between 1934 and 1975. He lived in Urfeld am Walchensee from 1954 until 1975.
Selected filmography
* ''Count Woronzeff'' (1934), as Cousi ...
as Pastor
*
Werner Peters
Werner Peters (7 July 1918 – 30 March 1971) was a German film actor. He appeared in 102 films between 1947 and 1971.
Biography
Peters was born in Werlitzsch, Kreis Delitzsch, Prussian Saxony, and died of a heart attack on a promotion to ...
as Oberlehrer Kasten
*
Joseph Offenbach
Joseph Offenbach (born ''Joseph Ziegler''; 28 December 1904 – 15 October 1971) was a German actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1942 to 1969.
Selected filmography
References
External links
*
*
1904 births
1 ...
as Bennekamp
*
Robert Meyn as Ess
*
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 ...
as Dr.Köster
*
Erna Sellmer
Erna Elisabeth Dorothea Sellmer (19 June 1905 – 13 May 1983) was a German film actress. She was best known in the English-speaking world for her role as housekeeper Frau Gerber in the 1970s Swiss-Canadian television series '' George'' about a S ...
as Steinberger
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Ursula Wolff Ursula may refer to:
* Ursula (name), feminine name and a list of people and fictional characters with the name
* ''Ursula'' (album), an album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron
*Ursula (crater), a crater on Titania, a moon of Uranus
*Ursula (det ...
as Änne - Kind
*
Isabelle Carlson
Isabel is a female name of Spanish origin. Isabelle is a name that is similar, but it is of French origin. It originates as the medieval Spanish form of '' Elisabeth'' (ultimately Hebrew ''Elisheva''), Arising in the 12th century, it became popul ...
as Franziska - Kind
*
Peter Badura
Peter may refer to:
People
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* Peter (given name)
** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church
* Peter (surname), a sur ...
as Leo, Kind
*
Rainer Ehrhardt
Rainer may refer to:
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* Rainer (surname)
* Rainer (given name)
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* Rainer Island, an island in Franz Josef Land, Russia
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See also
* Rainier (disambiguation ...
as Andreas, Kind
*
Hans Fitze as Bürgermeister
*
Jost Ludwig Jost is both a German given name and a surname and a Jewish (Ashkenazi) surname. Notable people with the name include:
Given name
* Jost Amman (1539–1591), Swiss
* Jost Bürgi (1552–1632), Swiss clockmaker, maker of astronomical instruments ...
as Moritz, Zwilling - Kind
*
Lutz Ludwig
Lutz is a surname and given name, occasionally a short form of Ludwig. People with the name include:
Surname
*Adolfo Lutz (1855–1940), Brazilian physician
*Aleda E. Lutz (1915–1944), American Army flight nurse
*Alois Lutz, Austrian figure sk ...
as Max, Zwilling - Kind
*
Sabine Schmiedel as Malwinchen - Kind
*
Peter Uwe Witt
Peter may refer to:
People
* List of people named Peter, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name
* Peter (given name)
** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church
* Peter (surname), a sur ...
as Hubert - Kind
References
Bibliography
* Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009.
External links
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West German films
German comedy films
1958 comedy films
1950s German-language films
Films directed by Hans Deppe
1958 films
Real Film films
Films shot at Wandsbek Studios
1950s German films
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