An Old Heart Becomes Young Again

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.

• Erich EngelDirector
• Walter WassermannWriter
• Lotte NeumannScreenplay

• 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
• Paul HenckelsJustizrat Flinth
• Max GülstorffProfessor Tiburzius
• Renée StobrawaFrau Wendisch