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An Old Heart Becomes Young Again
8.0 / 10• 1943• 1h 37m•NR• German
Comedy
Storyline
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 & Crew
Emil Jannings
Friedrich Hoffmann, Seniorchef
Lead
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
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Erich Engel's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
4.0
“Every frame feels alive. An Old Heart Becomes Young Again is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”