If the Father and the Son
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After Clown Teddy lost his son, he lost his gift for laughter. He opened a joke shop and lives above the shop. His landlady has had a foster son since birth, and Teddy decides to raise the child, who always believed that Teddy was his father. When the mother suddenly appears five years later and wants her son, Teddy decides to run away with the child and goes back onstage with his son. Will the family catch up with them, or will the mother never get her son back?
Status: Released
Released Date: 1955-08-01
Runtime: 95 mins
Director: Hans Quest
Spoken language: Deutsch
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Original title: If the Father and the Son
Production Companies: Berolina-Film
Production Countries: Germany
Cast
Heinz Rühmann
Oliver Grimm
Waltraut Haas
Robert Freitag
Pero Alexander
Fita Benkhoff
Carl-Heinz Schroth
Rudolf Schündler
Sybil Werden
Herbert Kiper
Hans Schwarz Jr.
Wolfgang Condrus
Heidi Becker
Arnim Dahl
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