Storyline
After Clown Teddy lost his son, he lost his gift for laughter. He opened a joke shop and lives above the shop. His landlady has had a foster son since birth, and Teddy decides to raise the child, who always believed that Teddy was his father. When the mother suddenly appears five years later and wants her son, Teddy decides to run away with the child and goes back onstage with his son. Will the family catch up with them, or will the mother never get her son back?
Cast & Crew
Heinz Rühmann
Teddy Lemke
LeadOG
Oliver Grimm
Ulli
Waltraut Haas
Gerti
Robert Freitag
Roy Bentley
Pero Alexander
Donald Crossman
Fita Benkhoff
Miss Biermann
Carl-Heinz Schroth
Peepe
Rudolf Schündler
Man in the store
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Hans Quest's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. If the Father and the Son is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
