The read
It runs a compact 1h 20m.
Synopsis
Barbara's family is poor and she needs to come up with a way to pay the gas bill. At her job in a cinema she listens to the conversation of a cheating wife and her affair. Barbara offers the husband of the cheating wife, a wealthy chemist, to help him get his wife back. Her plan is a bizarre sharade in which Barbara plays the role of the chemist's affair to make his wife jealous. Of course, this backfires in every way imaginable.
Ratings
IMDb5.6/10
1 audience votes
Key crew
- Fritz KirchhoffDirector
- Willi KolloScreenplay
- Fritz KirchhoffScreenplay
Cast
- Grethe WeiserBarbara
- Franz ZimmermannFrank Andermann
- Paul HoffmannDr. Manfred Reinerz, Chemiker und Erfinder
- Elisabeth RiedStefanie
- Ingeborg von KusserowLucie
- Ellen BangUrsula, Barbaras jüngere Schwester
- Manny ZienerFrau Werner, Barbaras und Ursulas Mutter
- Hans LeibeltAndermann sen.
- Wilhelm P. KrügerLohmeyer, Hauswart
- Arthur SchröderDer Hotelchef
- Jakob TiedtkeStockinger
- Luise MorlandEmelie