An Old Heart Becomes Young Again (1943)

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.

Cast (42)CrewGenresDetailsReleasesMediaAwards

Emil Jannings

Friedrich Hoffmann, Seniorchef

Viktor de Kowa

Dr. Paul Dehnhardt, sein Neffe

Maria Landrock

Brigitte Lüders, Hoffmanns Enkelin

Will Dohm

Heinrich Hoffmann, Friedrichs Neffe

Elisabeth Flickenschildt

Jenny Hoffmann, seine Frau

Harald Paulsen

Richard Lorenz, Friedrich Hoffmanns Neffe

Roma Bahn

Irene Lorenz, seine Frau

Paul Hubschmid

Willibald Mack

Margit Symo

Ilona Halmos

P

Paul Henckels

Justizrat Flinth

Max Gülstorff

Professor Tiburzius

Renée Stobrawa

Frau Wendisch

I

Ilse Petri

Lotte Wendisch, ihre Tochter

Lucie Höflich

Frau Blume, Vermieterin

Hans Junkermann

Diener Windel

K

Käte Alving

Fabrikangestellte

Erich Dunskus

Hoffmanns Chauffeur

K

Karl Hannemann

Hoffmanns Diener

I

Ilse Fürstenberg

Portiersfrau

Gerta Böttcher

Richards Tochter Lilo Lorenz

K

Katarina Boenisch

Desdemona

G

Gerda Dunker

Eine Freundin Brigittes, die bei Friedrich tanzt

E

Eva Ernst

Eine Freundin Brigittes, die bei Friedrich tanzt

Angelo Ferrari

Ilona Halmos' Begleiter am Bahnhof

U

Ursula Fornelli

Eine Freundin Brigittes, die bei Friedrich tanzt

H

Herbert Gernot

Friedrichs Privatsekretär

H

Hanni Hartwig

Eine Freundin Brigittes, die bei Friedrich tanzt

K

Knut Hartwig

H

Helmuth Helsig

Bit Part

A

Alfred Karen

Operngast

T

Tiana Lemnitz

Opernsängerin

M

Max Lorenz

Opernsänger

L

Lisca Malbran

Eine Freundin Brigittes, die bei Friedrich tanzt

Friedrich Maurer

Büroangestellter bei Friedrich 2

K

Karl Morvilius

Büroangestellter bei Friedrich 1

I

Inge Musehold

Eine Freundin Brigittes, die bei Friedrich tanzt

Klaus Pohl

Süsswarenverkaüfer am Bahnhof

I

Irmingard Schreiter

Eine Freundin Brigittes, die bei Friedrich tanzt

F

Fritz Soot

Othello

W

Walter Tarrach

Franz, der Diener bei Dr. Dehnhardt

P

Petra Unkel

Eine Freundin Brigittes, die bei Friedrich tanzt

F

Franz Weber

Logenschliesser in der Oper

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