''Kohlhiesel's Daughters'' (German: ''Kohlhiesels Töchter'') is a 1943 German

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directed by

Kurt Hoffmann Kurt Hoffmann (12 November 1910 – 25 June 2001) was a German film director, the son of Carl Hoffmann. He directed 48 films between 1938 and 1971. He ran a production company Independent Film along with Heinz Angermeyer. His 1958 film ''W ...

and starring

Eduard Köck Eduard Köck (26 February 1880 – 3 November 1961) was an Austrian stage actor, stage and film actor.Fritsche p.220 He made a few silent film appearances, but most of his screen performances were character roles during the 1940s and 1950s. Selec ...

, Heli Finkenzeller and

Oskar Sima Oskar Sima (31 July 1896 – 24 June 1969) was an Austrian actor who is best remembered for appearing in supporting roles in countless comedy films from the 1930s to the 1960s. Born in Hohenau an der March, Lower Austria, Sima attended high sc ...

.Ludewig p.149 It is one of a number of film adaptations of

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's play of the same name. The film's sets were designed by the

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s Franz Koehn and

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took place at

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Cast

as Mathias Kohlhöfer, genannt Kohlhiesel * Heli Finkenzeller as Veronika Kohlhöfer *

as Simon Moser, genannt Jodok-Simerl * Erika von Thellmann as Mosers Wirtschafterin Theres *

Margarete Haagen Margarete Haagen (29 November 1889 – 19 November 1966) was a German stage and film actress. Haagen appeared in over a hundred films during her career, generally in character roles. She specialised in playing good-natured elderly ladies. Fo ...

as Kohlhiesels Wirtschafterin Sophie *

Leo Peukert Leonhard "Leo" Peukert (26 August 1885 – 6 January 1944) was a prolific German film actor and film director, appearing in more than a hundred and fifty productions between 1910 and his death in 1944. While occasionally he played a leading role i ...

as Gemeindevorsteher *

Sepp Rist Sepp Rist (24 February 1900 – 11 December 1980) was a German film actor.Goble p.480 In WW1 he served in the Imperial German Navy. He was married to the actress Carla Rust. Partial filmography * '' Storm over Mont Blanc'' (1930) - Hannes * '' S ...

as Kaspar Pointer *

Josef Eichheim Josef Theodor Ludwig Eichheim (23 February 1888 – 13 November 1945) was a German film actor. Selected filmography * '' I Lost My Heart in Heidelberg'' (1926) * '' The Women's War'' (1928) * '' Behind Monastery Walls'' (1928) * '' Peter Voss, T ...

as Thomas Altlechner *

Paul Richter Paul Richter (1 April 1895 – 30 December 1961) was an Austrian film actor. He owed his great popularity in German films of the silent era largely to the directors Joe May and Fritz Lang. Biography Richter made his film debut right before W ...

as Bertl * Klaus Pohl as Gemeindediener Paulus *

Fritz Kampers Fritz Kampers (14 July 1891 – 1 September 1950) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 250 films between 1913 and 1950. Early life Fritz Kampers was the son of a Munich hotel owner, spent his early childhood in Garmisch-Partenk ...

as Schmied Unterhuber * Marta Salm as Franzi Unterhuber *

Beppo Brem Beppo Brem (11 March 1906 in Munich, German Empire – September 5, 1990 in Munich, West Germany) was a German film actor, who was in over 200 film and television productions between 1932 and 1990. He often played stereotypically Bavarian characte ...

as Florian

References

Bibliography

* Ludewig, Alexandra. ''Screening Nostalgia: 100 Years of German Heimat Film''. transcript Verlag, 2014.

External links

* 1943 films 1943 comedy films German comedy films Films of Nazi Germany 1940s German-language films Films directed by Kurt Hoffmann German black-and-white films Films set in the Alps Remakes of German films Tobis Film films 1940s German films Films scored by Harald Böhmelt {{1940s-Germany-film-stub