When twin brothers Georg and Steffen look a little too deeply into their glasses one day, they decide to swap roles for 14 days. Georg is the manager of a large department store and Steffen is a writer. The two experience bizarre situations: The department store director is adored by a saleswoman with a passion for literature and has to report on his literary work as the guest of honor at a brigade meeting. He is also short of ideas for the lively stories he is supposed to write. The writer, on the other hand, is not very familiar with the bureaucratic customs of running a department store. He allows all the sales assistants to take their housekeeping day at once, approves 3,000 marks for decoration purposes and approves of all departments of the department store being open until 8pm.
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Cast
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Rolf Ludwig
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Stein
Micaela Kreißler
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Roman Silberstein
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Kurt Radeke
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Evamaria Bath
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Rolf Hoppe
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Ingeborg Krabbe
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Friedhelm Eberle
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Reiseziel Erfurt
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Herbert Köfer
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Gert Gütschow
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Iris Bohnau
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Fred-Arthur Geppert
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Hubert Hoelzke Director · Franz Freitag Writer Winfried Kleist Cinematographer
First release November 27, 1973 · Produced in XG, Germany
Production
Fernsehen der DDR
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XG · Germany
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German
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German
Release dates
Germany · November 27, 1973
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No release date listed for United States.
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