An Old Heart Becomes Young Again

Overview

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

Emil Jannings

Friedrich Hoffmann, Seniorchef

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

Margit Symo

Ilona Halmos

Paul Henckels

Justizrat Flinth