The House in Montevideo (1963 film)

1963 film

The House in Montevideo

Directed by| Helmut Käutner
Written by|

* Curt Goetz (play)
* Helmut Käutner

Produced by| Hans Domnick
Starring|

* Heinz Rühmann
* Ruth Leuwerik
* Paul Dahlke
* Hanne Wieder

Cinematography| Günther Anders
Edited by| Klaus Dudenhöfer
Music by| Franz Grothe

Production
company

Domnick Filmproduktion

Distributed by| Constantin Film

Release date

* 17 October 1963 (1963-10-17)

Running time

| 123 minutes
Country| West Germany
Language| German

The House in Montevideo (German: Das Haus in Montevideo) is a 1963 German comedy film directed by Helmut Käutner and starring Heinz Rühmann, Ruth Leuwerik and Paul Dahlke.[1]

The film was based on the 1945 play The House in Montevideo by Curt Goetz, which had previously been turned into a film in 1951.

It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Isabella Schlichting and Werner Schlichting.

## Plot

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Professor Traugott Nägler, a man with high moral standards, once repudiated his underage sister for having a baby out of wedlock. Many years later, having a loving wife and twelve children with only the small salary of a schoolmaster, he learns that said sister has died in South America, and that he should come with his oldest yet still underage daughter, Atlanta, who was named after the ship on which the couple was married at sea by the captain. In Uruguay, they find out that the sister had made a fortune and owned a house in Montevideo, an etablissement with several young ladies, that Atlanta inherits some money as marriage portion, and that a large amount of money could be inherited by the first underage female member in his house that behaves in the same disreputable way as the sister once did involuntarily. Not daring to tell his daughter Atlanta about the stipulation, and definitely not her younger sisters, he is anyway tempted to make helpful suggestions to her, and especially to her suitor who had followed them secretly. When the young couple wants to have their wedding on the same ship as her parents, they find out that size matters, and that Prof. Nägler has led a far more immoral life than his sister ever did.

## Cast

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* Heinz Rühmann as Prof. Dr. Traugott Hermann Nägler
* Ruth Leuwerik as Marianne Nägler
* Paul Dahlke as Pastor Riesling
* Hanne Wieder as Carmen de la Rocco
* Ilse Pagé as Atlanta
* Michael Verhoeven as Herbert
* Viktor de Kowa as Anwalt
* Fritz Tillmann as Bürgermeister
* Elfie Fiegert as Belinda
* Doris Kiesow as Martha
* Herbert Kroll as Apotheker
* Georg Gütlich as Oberst
* Pierre Franckh as Lohengrin

## References

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1. ^ "The House in Montevideo". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on September 11, 2018. Retrieved 10 September 2018.

## External links

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* The House in Montevideo at IMDb

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Films directed by Helmut Käutner

* Kitty and the World Conference (1939)
* Clothes Make the Man (1940)
* Woman Made to Measure (1940)
* We Make Music (1942)
* Anuschka (1942)
* Romance in a Minor Key (1943)
* Große Freiheit Nr. 7 (1944)
* Under the Bridges (1946)
* In Those Days (1947)
* The Original Sin (1948)
* Royal Children (1950)
* White Shadows (1951)
* Captain Bay-Bay (1953)
* The Last Bridge (1954)
* Portrait of an Unknown Woman (1954)
* Ludwig II (1955)
* The Devil's General (1955)
* Sky Without Stars (1955)
* The Girl from Flanders (1956)
* The Captain from Köpenick (1956)
* Love from Paris (1957)
* The Rest Is Silence (1959)
* The Goose of Sedan (1959)
* A Glass of Water (1960)
* Black Gravel (1961)
* The Dream of Lieschen Mueller (1961)
* Redhead (1962)
* The House in Montevideo (1963)
* Die Feuerzangenbowle (1970)

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