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All throughout his entire life, Friedrich Wilhelm Hoffmann let his career run roughshod over his personal life. He had no wife, because he was married instead to his chocolate factory. Now he’s old and gray, and his relatives, who are greedily waiting for him to kick the bucket so they can get their hands on his worldly goods, keep their distance from him. Then one day, an astonished Hoffmann is visited by a young woman named Brigitte, who asserts, that she’s his granddaughter. Suddenly, it all comes back to the old man: as a young man, he had a short, but intense, love affair, which he had to end on the insistence of his father.Read moreLess
All throughout his entire life, Friedrich Wilhelm Hoffmann let his career run roughshod over his personal life. He had no wife, because he was married instead to his chocolate factory. Now he’s old and gray, and his relatives, who are greedily waiting for him to kick the bucket so they can get their hands on his worldly goods, keep their distance from him. Then one day, an astonished Hoffmann is visited by a young woman named Brigitte, who asserts, that she’s his granddaughter. Suddenly, it all comes back to the old man: as a young man, he had a short, but intense, love affair, which he had to end on the insistence of his father.
The story
All throughout his entire life, Friedrich Wilhelm Hoffmann let his career run roughshod over his personal life. He had no wife, because he was married instead to his chocolate factory. Now he’s old and gray, and his relatives, who are greedily waiting for him to kick the bucket so they can get their hands on his worldly goods, keep their distance from him. Then one day, an astonished Hoffmann is visited by a young woman named Brigitte, who asserts, that she’s his granddaughter. Suddenly, it all comes back to the old man: as a young man, he had a short, but intense, love affair, which he had to end on the insistence of his father.
Cast & crew
Emil JanningsFriedrich Hoffmann, Seniorchef
Viktor de KowaDr. Paul Dehnhardt, sein Neffe
Maria LandrockBrigitte Lüders, Hoffmanns Enkelin
Will DohmHeinrich Hoffmann, Friedrichs Neffe
Elisabeth FlickenschildtJenny Hoffmann, seine Frau
Harald PaulsenRichard Lorenz, Friedrich Hoffmanns Neffe
Roma BahnIrene Lorenz, seine Frau
Paul HubschmidWillibald Mack
Margit SymoIlona Halmos
Max GülstorffProfessor Tiburzius
Renée StobrawaFrau WendischExplore the crew
- Director
- Erich Engel
- Writer
- Walter Wassermann
- Screenplay
- Lotte Neumann