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Intended as a light farce this comedy by Luigi Commencini is a little plodding in its story about a bank manager who has had it with his buttoned-down, boring job. One Monday he can no longer face the tedium of both his work and his life and so he stays home and rebels by playing with toys and joining in on a radio concert with his own instruments. His erratic behavior does not go unnoticed and soon a winsome psychiatrist whom he knows and secretly admires, is right there trying to help him. The newly liberated bank manager logically grasps this opportunity to press forward his innermost feelings.Read moreLess
Intended as a light farce this comedy by Luigi Commencini is a little plodding in its story about a bank manager who has had it with his buttoned-down, boring job. One Monday he can no longer face the tedium of both his work and his life and so he stays home and rebels by playing with toys and joining in on a radio concert with his own instruments. His erratic behavior does not go unnoticed and soon a winsome psychiatrist whom he knows and secretly admires, is right there trying to help him. The newly liberated bank manager logically grasps this opportunity to press forward his innermost feelings.
The story
Intended as a light farce this comedy by Luigi Commencini is a little plodding in its story about a bank manager who has had it with his buttoned-down, boring job. One Monday he can no longer face the tedium of both his work and his life and so he stays home and rebels by playing with toys and joining in on a radio concert with his own instruments. His erratic behavior does not go unnoticed and soon a winsome psychiatrist whom he knows and secretly admires, is right there trying to help him. The newly liberated bank manager logically grasps this opportunity to press forward his innermost feelings.
Cast & crew
O.W. FischerAlois Kessel
Ulla JacobssonDelia Mond
Vera TschechowaMonika
Werner FinckProf. Gross
Reinhard KolldehoffHerr Müller
Blandine EbingerFrau Präfke
Siegfried SchürenbergHerr von Schmitz
Inge WolffbergPatientinExplore the crew
- Director
- Luigi Comencini
- Writer
- Franz Höllering
- Editor
- Walter Wischniewsky
- Producer
- Artur Brauner
- Writer
- Luigi Comencini
- Original Music Composer
- Hans-Martin Majewski
- Director of Photography
- Karl Löb
- Writer
- Peter Goldbaum