The Domestic Tyrant
1959 film
- Heinz Erhardt
- Grethe Weiser
- Peter Vogel
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Divina-Film
Release date
- 29 January 1959 (1959-01-29)
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The Domestic Tyrant (German: Der Haus-Tyrann) is a 1959 West German comedy film directed by Hans Deppe and starring Heinz Erhardt, Grethe Weiser and Peter Vogel.[1] It is based on the play The Scoundrel by Hans Reimann and Toni Impekoven, which has been made into several films.
The film's sets were designed by the art directors Werner Achmann and Willy Schatz.
Synopsis
An overbearing owner of a coffee shop torments his family and customers, until he finds himself in court.
Cast
- Heinz Erhardt as Paul Perlacher
- Grethe Weiser as Amalie Hartung
- Peter Vogel as Hannes Hartung
- Helga Martin as Inge Perlacher
- Rudolf Platte as waiter Gottlieb
- Stephan Schwartz [de] as Alex Perlacher
- Arnulf Schröder as professor
- Ernst Waldow as examining magistrate Dr. Wallner
- Beppo Brem as constable Rübsam
- Eduard Linkers as prosecutor
- Hans Leibelt as judge
- Else Quecke as Trude Perlacher
- Dietrich Thoms as postman
- Willy Hagara as himself
Soundtrack
- Willy Hagara — "Es kann im Frühling sein" (Music by Josef Niessen, lyrics by Bruno Balz)
- Willy Hagara — "Man liebt nur einmal" (Music by Josef Niessen, lyrics by Bruno Balz)
References
- ^ Bock & Bergfelder p.113
Bibliography
- Hans-Michael Bock and Tim Bergfelder. The Concise Cinegraph: An Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.
External links
- The Domestic Tyrant at IMDb
- The Domestic Tyrant is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
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Films directed by Hans Deppe
- The Rider on the White Horse (1934)
- Hubertus Castle (1934)
- Holiday From Myself (1934)
- A Night of Change (1935)
- The Saint and Her Fool (1935)
- The Valiant Navigator (1935)
- The Three Around Christine (1936)
- Street Music (1936)
- The Hunter of Fall (1936)
- Meiseken (1937)
- Silence in the Forest (1937)
- Fools in the Snow (1938)
- Storms in May (1938)
- The Scoundrel (1939)
- The War of the Oxen (1943)
- A Salzburg Comedy (1943)
- A Man Like Maximilian (1945)
- No Place for Love (1947)
- Don't Play with Love (1949)
- How Do We Tell Our Children? (1949)
- The Cuckoos (1949)
- My Wife's Friends (1949)
- One Night Apart (1950)
- The Black Forest Girl (1950)
- The Heath Is Green (1951)
- Not Without Gisela (1951)
- Holiday From Myself (1952)
- The Prince of Pappenheim (1952)
- The Land of Smiles (1952)
- Secretly Still and Quiet (1953)
- When the White Lilacs Bloom Again (1953)
- The Great Lola (1954)
- The Seven Dresses of Katrin (1954)
- The Country Schoolmaster (1954)
- The Ambassador's Wife (1955)
- Son Without a Home (1955)
- When the Alpine Roses Bloom (1955)
- The Priest from Kirchfeld (1955)
- Your Life Guards (1955)
- The Tour Guide of Lisbon (1956)
- My Brother Joshua (1956)
- A Thousand Melodies (1956)
- As Long as the Roses Bloom (1956)
- Beneath the Palms on the Blue Sea (1957)
- All Roads Lead Home (1957)
- Immer die Radfahrer (1958)
- Thirteen Old Donkeys (1958)
- Kein Mann zum Heiraten (1959)
- The Domestic Tyrant (1959)
- That's No Way to Land a Man (1959)
- Mandolins and Moonlight (1959)
- When the Heath Is in Bloom (1960)
- Guitars Sound Softly Through the Night (1960)
- Robert and Bertram (1961)
- I Must Go to the City (1962)
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