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Mein Sohn, Der Herr Minister (1937)

Also known as My Son the Minister

1937 · Feature film · 81 min · dir. Veit Harlan

  • Comedy
  • Drama

Synopsis

Sylvia has succeeded in making her son Robert a minister in the French Republic. His old servent, Gabriel, interrupts the young man during an "erotic" conference with the singer Betty. She's there, because her politically inappropriate songs is about to get her banned from the stage, which the minister would like to prevent. A fight breaks out between Robert and Gabriel and Sylvia, his mother, has to confess to Robert, that Gabriel is actually his father. When the minister once again misbehaves, this time at a ball, his servant and father Gabriel decides that the time has come to slap his son in everyone's presence. Robert is forced to resign and a journalist from the People's Front suggests Gabriel for the post of minister. - The film was classified after the end of the german third empire as a reservation film.

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Details

Director
Veit Harlan
Writer
Karl Georg Külb
Cinematography
Günther Anders
Studio
UFA
Released
1937-07-06
Original title
Mein Sohn, der Herr Minister
Running time
81 minutes
Language
German
Collection
Mid-20th-Century German Film, Feature Films

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