8
97 min
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.
| Name | Character | Team | |
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Emil Jannings | Friedrich Hoffmann, Seniorchef | Unowned |
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Viktor de Kowa | Dr. Paul Dehnhardt, sein Neffe | Unowned |
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Maria Landrock | Brigitte Lüders, Hoffmanns Enkelin | Unowned |
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Will Dohm | Heinrich Hoffmann, Friedrichs Neffe | Unowned |
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Elisabeth Flickenschildt | Jenny Hoffmann, seine Frau | Unowned |
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Harald Paulsen | Richard Lorenz, Friedrich Hoffmanns Neffe | Unowned |
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Roma Bahn | Irene Lorenz, seine Frau | Unowned |
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Paul Hubschmid | Willibald Mack | Unowned |
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Margit Symo | Ilona Halmos | Unowned |
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Paul Henckels | Justizrat Flinth | Unowned |
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Max Gülstorff | Professor Tiburzius | Unowned |
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Renée Stobrawa | Frau Wendisch | Unowned |
| Ilse Petri | Lotte Wendisch, ihre Tochter | Unowned | |
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Lucie Höflich | Frau Blume, Vermieterin | Unowned |
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Hans Junkermann | Diener Windel | Unowned |
| Käte Alving | Fabrikangestellte | Unowned | |
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Erich Dunskus | Hoffmanns Chauffeur | Unowned |
| Karl Hannemann | Hoffmanns Diener | Unowned | |
| Ilse Fürstenberg | Portiersfrau | Unowned | |
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Gerta Böttcher | Richards Tochter Lilo Lorenz | Unowned |
| Katarina Boenisch | Desdemona | Unowned | |
| Gerda Dunker | Eine Freundin Brigittes, die bei Friedrich tanzt | Unowned | |
| Eva Ernst | Eine Freundin Brigittes, die bei Friedrich tanzt | Unowned | |
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Angelo Ferrari | Ilona Halmos' Begleiter am Bahnhof | Unowned |
| Ursula Fornelli | Eine Freundin Brigittes, die bei Friedrich tanzt | Unowned | |
| Herbert Gernot | Friedrichs Privatsekretär | Unowned | |
| Hanni Hartwig | Eine Freundin Brigittes, die bei Friedrich tanzt | Unowned | |
| Knut Hartwig | Unowned | ||
| Helmuth Helsig | Bit Part | Unowned | |
| Alfred Karen | Operngast | Unowned | |
| Tiana Lemnitz | Opernsängerin | Unowned | |
| Max Lorenz | Opernsänger | Unowned | |
| Lisca Malbran | Eine Freundin Brigittes, die bei Friedrich tanzt | Unowned | |
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Friedrich Maurer | Büroangestellter bei Friedrich 2 | Unowned |
| Karl Morvilius | Büroangestellter bei Friedrich 1 | Unowned | |
| Inge Musehold | Eine Freundin Brigittes, die bei Friedrich tanzt | Unowned | |
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Klaus Pohl | Süsswarenverkaüfer am Bahnhof | Unowned |
| Irmingard Schreiter | Eine Freundin Brigittes, die bei Friedrich tanzt | Unowned | |
| Fritz Soot | Othello | Unowned | |
| Walter Tarrach | Franz, der Diener bei Dr. Dehnhardt | Unowned | |
| Petra Unkel | Eine Freundin Brigittes, die bei Friedrich tanzt | Unowned | |
| Franz Weber | Logenschliesser in der Oper | Unowned |