Laughing Heirs
{{Short description|1933 film}}
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{{Infobox film
| image = Laughing Heirs.jpg
| name = Laughing Heirs
| director = Max Ophüls
| producer = Bruno Duday
| writer = {{ubl|Trude Herka (story)|Felix Joachimson|Max Ophüls}}
| starring = {{ubl|Lien Deyers|Heinz Rühmann|Ida Wüst}}
| music = Clemens Schmalstich
| cinematography = Eduard Hoesch
| editing = Herbert B. Fredersdorf
| studio = UFA
| distributor = UFA
| released = {{film date|1933|3|6|df=y}}
| runtime = 76 minutes
| country = Germany
| language = German
}}
Laughing Heirs ({{langx|de|Lachende Erben}}) is a 1933 German comedy film directed by Max Ophüls and starring Heinz Rühmann, Max Adalbert, Lien Deyers and Friedrich Ettel.Kreimeier p. 218 It was shot at the Babelsberg and Tempelhof Studios in Berlin and on location in the Rhineland. The film's sets were designed by the art director Benno von Arent.The premiere was on 6 March 1933.
Synopsis
A young salesman may inherit a wine-estate on one condition: he can't drink a drop of alcohol for at least a month.
Cast
- Heinz Rühmann as Peter Frank
- Lien Deyers as Gina, Robert Stumms Tochter
- Ida Wüst as Britta Bockelmann
- Max Adalbert as Justus Bockelmann
- Lizzi Waldmüller as Liane Heller
- Julius Falkenstein as Dr. Weinhöppel, Notar
- Walter Janssen as Robert Stumm
- Friedrich Ettel as Schlemmel, Kellermeister
- Elfriede Jera as Sekretärin von Robert Stamm
- Heinrich Gotho as Verwandter bei der Testamentseröffnung
- Illo Gutschwager as Junger Gast bei Schlemmel
- Friedl Haerlin as Nebenrolle
- Vera Spohr as Junge Zugreisende
- Walter Steinbeck as Ein Fahrgast
- Max Wilmsen as Schiffspassagier
References
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Bibliography
- {{cite book | last = Kreimeier | first = Klaus | title = The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918–1945 | publisher = University of California Press | year = 1999 | isbn = 978-0-520-22069-0 }}
External links
- {{IMDb title|0024236}}
{{Max Ophüls}}
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Category:Banned films in Nazi Germany
Category:Films of the Weimar Republic
Category:1930s German-language films
Category:Films directed by Max Ophüls
Category:Films shot at Babelsberg Studios
Category:Films shot at Tempelhof Studios
Category:German black-and-white films
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