Mamitschka

Mamitschka
Directed byRolf Thiele
Written byRolf Thiele
Produced byHans Abich
Rolf Thiele
StarringMila Kopp
Rudolf Platte
Jester Naefe
CinematographyKarl Schröder
Edited byCaspar van den Berg
Music byNorbert Schultze
Production
company
Filmaufbau
Distributed byDeutsche London Film
Release date
  • 29 September 1955 (1955-09-29)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryWest Germany
LanguageGerman

Mamitschka is a 1955 West German comedy-drama film directed by Rolf Thiele and starring Mila Kopp, Rudolf Platte and Jester Naefe.[1]

It was shot at the Göttingen Studios and on location around Bamberg in Bavaria. The film's sets were designed by the art director Walter Haag.

Plot

The film portrays the attempts of a family of Sudeten German refugees struggling to adjust to living in post-war Germany following their forced expulsion from Czechoslovakia. Eventually their daughter marries a soldier of the American occupying forces, himself of German descent, and the whole family emigrate to the United States.

Cast

References

  1. ^ Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. p. 367. ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9.