How Do We Tell Our Children?

How Do We Tell Our Children?
How Do We Tell Our Children?
Directed by	Hans Deppe
Written by	; ; ; ; Volker von Collande;
Produced by
Starring	Leny Marenbach; Mathias Wieman; Hilde Körber;
Cinematography	Robert Baberske
Music by	Hans-Otto Borgmann
Production; company	UFA
Distributed by	Stern-Film Verleih
Release date	21 December 1949;
Running time	89 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

How Do We Tell Our Children? (German: Wie sagen wir es unseren Kindern?) is a 1949 German comedy film directed by Hans Deppe and starring Leny Marenbach, Mathias Wieman and Hilde Körber.^[1] The film was made by the major German studio UFA in 1944, but was not released until several years after the end of the war.^[2]

The film's sets were designed by the art director Wilhelm Vorwerg. Shooting took place in the Babelsberg Studios and on location in Dresden and Switzerland.

Synopsis[]

In a suburb of Dresden, a widowed doctor with four children lives opposite a divorcee with three children. Gradually they fall in love despite the constant feuding between their children.

Cast[]

Leny Marenbach as Käthe Westhoff
Mathias Wieman as Dr. Thomas Hofer
Hilde Körber as Adele
Ernst Waldow as Diesing
as Sigrid
as Klaus
as Wölfchen
as Erich
as Theo
as Kurt
as Pepi
Franz Schafheitlin
Alexa von Porembsky

References[]

^ Holmstrom p. 523
^ Rentschler p. 268

Bibliography[]

Holmstrom, John. The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995, Norwich, Michael Russell, 1996.
Rentschler, Eric. The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife. Harvard University Press, 1996.

External links[]

How Do We Tell Our Children? at IMDb

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[1] Holmstrom p. 523

[2] Rentschler p. 268

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