''New Year's Eve Punch'' () is a 1960 East German

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directed by

Günter Reisch Günter Reisch (24 November 1927 – 24 February 2014) was a German film director and screenwriter. He served in the German Army during the last stage of World War II. On 20 April 1944 he became a member of the Nazi Party. After his release from a ...

and starring Erich Franz, Friedel Nowack and Erika Dunkelmann.Koepnick p.72 It was made by the state-owned

DEFA DEFA (''Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft'') was the state-owned film studio of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) throughout the country's existence. Since 2019, DEFA's film heritage has been made accessible and licensable on the PR ...

company. It is a sequel to the 1959 film '' The Punch Bowl''.

Cast

* Erich Franz as Wilhelm Lehmann * Friedel Nowack as Auguste Lehmann * Erika Dunkelmann as Marion Lehmann *

Christel Bodenstein Christel Bodenstein (13 October 1938 – 5 December 2024) was a German film and television actress. She appeared in many East German (GDR) productions and is best known outside Germany for her leading role as the young princess in '' The Singin ...

as Suse Lehmann * Heinz Draehn as Franz Lehmann * Achim Schmidtchen as Michel Lehmann *

Ernst-Georg Schwill Ernst-Georg Schwill (30 March 1939 - 9 April 2020) was a German actor, best known for his performance as ''Kohle'' in the 1957 film '' Berlin, Schoenhauser Corner'' and as ''Lutz Weber'' in ''Tatort''. For several years Schwill was an informant fo ...

as Knispel *

Karin Schröder Karin may refer to: *Karin (given name), a feminine name Fiction * ''Karin'' (manga) or ''Chibi Vampire'', a Japanese media franchise * Karin Hanazono, title character of the manga and anime ''Kamichama Karin'' *Karin Kokubu, a main character in ...

as Ruth * Wolfgang Roeder as Wolfgang * Eberhard Keyn as Eberhard *

Erich Weber Erich Paul Weber (born 12 September 1860 in Kamen; died 29 October 1933 in Berlin) was a German army officer, who served in both the German Imperial Army and the Ottoman Army during World War I, and ultimately attained the rank of General of Infa ...

as Erich * Johannes Frenzel as Hannes *

Albert Zahn Albert Zahn was a self-taught sculptor from the Prussian province of Pomerania, who lived and worked in Door County, Wisconsin, Door County, Wisconsin, United States for most of his life. He is known primarily for his painted wood carvings of bird ...

as Otto *

Otto Busse Otto Emil Franz Ulrich Busse (; 6 December 1867 – 3 February 1922) was a German pathologist. Busse was born in Gühlitz, Kingdom of Prussia. He studied medicine at the University of Greifswald, and subsequently became an assistant to Paul G ...

as Karl * Herbert Sturm as Herbert * Edward Selz as Siggi *

Hubert Hoelzke Hubert is a Germanic masculine given name, from ''hug'' "mind" and '' beraht'' "bright". It also occurs as a surname. Saint Hubert of Liège (or Hubertus) (c. 656 – 30 May 727) is the patron saint of hunters, mathematicians, opticians, and m ...

as Egon Scheibe * Gustav Müller as Erwin Lüttger *

Günter Rüger Gunter or Günter may refer to: * Gunter rig, a type of sailing rig, especially in small boats * Gunter Annex, Alabama, a United States Air Force installation * Gunter, Texas, city in the United States * the former German name of the village of G ...

as Willibald Schmal * Kurt Rackelmann as Briefträger Pätsch * Rudolf Christoph as Werkleiter *

Heinz Quermann The Kraft Heinz Foods Company, formerly the H. J. Heinz Company and commonly known as Heinz (), is an American food processing company headquartered at One PPG Place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The company was founded by Henry J. Heinz in 1869 ...

as Reporter * Heinz Scholz as Objektleiter *

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as Lämmermeier * Maria Alexander as Sängerin * Maika Joseph as Garderobenfrau *

Nico Turoff Nico Turoff ( Ukrainian: Ніко Турофф; 6 December 1899 – 22 June 1978) was a Ukrainian boxer and actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1926 to 1979. Selected filmography References External links * 1899 b ...

as Kassierer an der Box-Kasse * Joachim Zschocke as Verkehrspolizist * Monika Bergen as Chemiemädchen

References

Bibliography

* Lutz Peter Koepnick. ''The Cosmopolitan Screen: German Cinema and the Global Imaginary, 1945 to the Present''. University of Michigan Press, 2007.

External links

* 1960 films German sequel films East German films German musical films 1960 musical films 1960s German-language films Films directed by Günter Reisch 1960s German films {{musical-film-stub