''And That on Monday Morning'' () is a 1959 West German

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directed by

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and starring

O.W. Fischer Otto Wilhelm Fischer (, ; 1 April 1915 – 29 January 2004) was an Austrian film and theatre actor, a leading man of West German cinema during the ''Wirtschaftswunder'' era of the 1950s and 1960s. Biography He was born in Klosterneuburg near ...

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and

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. Based on the 1955 British play '' Mr. Kettle and Mrs. Moon'' by J. B. Priestley, it was entered into the

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. It was shot at the

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. The film's sets were designed by the

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and Ernst Schomer.

Cast

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as Alois Kessel *

as Delia Mond *

as Monika * Robert Graf as Herbert Acker *

Werner Finck Werner Finck (2 May 1902 – 31 July 1978) was a German ''Kabarett'' comedian, actor and author. Not politically motivated by his own admission but just a "convinced individualist", he became one of Germany's leading cabaret artists under the co ...

as Prof. Gross *

Reinhard Kolldehoff Reinhard Kolldehoff (29 April 1914 – 18 November 1995) was a German film actor. He appeared in 140 films between 1941 and 1988. He was born and died in Berlin, Germany. Selected filmography * '' The Gasman'' (1941) - Polizeibeamter (uncr ...

as Herr Müller *

Blandine Ebinger Blandine Ebinger (née Blandine Loeser; born 4 November 1899 – 25 December 1993) was a German actress and ''chansonniere''. Career Ebinger became acquainted with Friedrich Hollaender in 1919, and with him she became heavily invested as a p ...

as Frau Präfke *

Lotte Stein Lotte Stein (1894–1982) was a German actress of the stage and screen. Of Jewish descent, she fled to the United States via Czechoslovakia and Portugal, and arrived at the Port of New York on board the SS ''Mouzinho'' in June 1941. Selected fi ...

as Frau Mutz *

Siegfried Schürenberg Siegfried Schürenberg (12 January 1900 – 31 August 1993) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 80 films between 1933 and 1974. He was born in Detmold, Germany and died in Berlin, Germany in 1993, at age 93. Although he never p ...

as Herr von Schmitz * Manfred Grothe as Sekretär * Inge Wolffberg as Patientin * Elvira Schalcher as Sekretärin * Kaete Alving as Frau Mond *

Sigurd Lohde Sigurd Lohde (1899–1977) was a German film and television actor.Youngkin p.457 Selected filmography * '' The Daredevil'' (1931) * ''The Leap into the Void'' (1932) * '' Mrs. Lehmann's Daughters'' (1932) * '' Tannenberg'' (1932) * '' The Big Blu ...

as Dr. Mond *

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as Herr Wegeleben

References

Bibliography

* Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009.

External links

* 1959 films 1959 romantic comedy films German romantic comedy films West German films 1950s German-language films German black-and-white films Films directed by Luigi Comencini German films based on plays Films shot at Spandau Studios 1950s German films Films scored by Hans-Martin Majewski {{romantic-comedy-film-stub