''Father Is Being Stupid'' (german: Vati macht Dummheiten) is a 1953 West German comedy film directed by

Johannes Häussler Johannes is a Medieval Latin form of the personal name that usually appears as "John (name), John" in English language contexts. It is a variant of the Greek and Classical Latin variants (Ιωάννης, ''Ioannes (given name), Ioannes''), itself ...

and starring

Otto Gebühr Otto Gebühr (29 May 1877 – 13 March 1954) was a German theatre and film actor, who appeared in 102 films released between 1917 and 1954. He is noted for his performance as the Prussian king Frederick the Great in numerous films. Early lif ...

, Camilla Horn and Herbert Hübner.Bock & Bergfelder p.150

Cast

as Der alte Hannsen, Rennfahrer a.D. * Camilla Horn as Baronin von Baran * Herbert Hübner as Fabrikant Ewers, Lottchens Vater * Claus Geißler as Wolfgang *

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as Lottchen * Ilse Fürstenberg as Frau Kirchner, Wolfgangs Mutter * Hans Fidesser as Paul Bartels * Kurt Vespermann as Kaminski *

Reinhold Brinkmann Reinhold Brinkmann (21 August 1934, Wildeshausen, Oldenburg, Lower Saxony – 10 October 2010, Eckernförde, Rendsburg-Eckernförde, Schleswig-Holstein) was a German musicologist. Brinkmann was born in Wildeshausen and studied at Freiburg im Brei ...

as Baron Koczy * Klaus Günther Neumann as Rundfunkreporter *

Paul Mederow Paul Friedrich Wolfgang Mederow (30 June 1887 – 17 December 1974) was a German stage and film actor. Mederow was born in Stralsund, in the Prussian province of Pomerania and died at age 87 in Brissago, Ticino, Switzerland. Partial filmograph ...

as Kriminalrat * Claire Molzahn *

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Reinhard Kolldehoff Reinhard Kolldehoff (29 April 1914 – 18 November 1995) was a German film actor. He appeared in 140 films between 1941 and 1988. He was born and died in Berlin, Germany. Selected filmography * '' The Gasman'' (1941) - Polizeibeamter (uncr ...

* Wolfgang Gens * Rudi Beil * Erhard Ey-Steineck * Die Schöneberger Sängerknaben as Kinderchor, Themselves * Branko Berlan

References

Bibliography

* Hans-Michael Bock and Tim Bergfelder. ''The Concise Cinegraph: An Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009.

External links

* 1953 films 1953 comedy films German comedy films West German films 1950s German-language films Films directed by Johannes Häussler 1950s German films {{1950s-Germany-film-stub