An Old Heart Becomes Young Again
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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.
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Cast
47 people
Emil Jannings
Friedrich Hoffmann, Seniorchef
Known for
The Blue Angel
The Last Laugh
Viktor de Kowa
Dr. Paul Dehnhardt, sein Neffe
Known for
Thunder at the Border
Erich Engel
Lotte Neumann
Also in
Romeo and Juliet in the Snow
The Forbidden Fruit
Fritz Klotsch
Maria Landrock
Brigitte Lüders, Hoffmanns Enkelin
Also in
The Chaste Beloved
Pedro Will Hang
Maurus Pacher
Will Dohm
Heinrich Hoffmann, Friedrichs Neffe
Also in
The Bath in the Barn
Opera Ball
Walter Wassermann
Also in
Das Gesicht im Spiegel
Elisabeth Flickenschildt
Jenny Hoffmann, seine Frau
Also in
The Inn on the River
The Terrible People
Harald Paulsen
Richard Lorenz, Friedrich Hoffmanns Neffe
Also in
Genuine: The Tragedy of a Vampire
Mordsache Holm
Roma Bahn
Irene Lorenz, seine Frau
Known for
Girls in Uniform
Erich Engel Director · Lotte Neumann Screenplay Walter Wassermann Writer
United States release January 1, 1952 · Produced in Germany · Original title Altes Herz wird wieder jung
Production
Tobis Filmkunst
Production
Germany
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Languages
Original title
Altes Herz wird wieder jung
Original language
German
Spoken on screen
German
Release dates
Germany · April 2, 1943
Theatrical
United States · January 1, 1952
Austria
June 16, 1950 · re-release
Denmark
December 16, 1943
Finland
August 29, 1943
Portugal
March 14, 1945
Spain
May 21, 1945 · Barcelona
Sweden
August 21, 1943
XC
June 4, 1943 · Theatrical
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