''Mamitschka'' is a 1955 West German
comedy-drama film directed by
Rolf Thiele
Rolf Thiele (7 March 1918 – 9 October 1994) was a German film director, film producer, producer and screenwriter. He directed 42 films between 1951 and 1977. He was born in Ústí nad Labem, Prödlitz, then in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. ...
and starring
Mila Kopp,
Rudolf Platte and
Jester Naefe
Jester Naefe (1924–1967) was an Austrian stage and film actress.Fritsche p.256 She became a leading star of German cinema in the 1950s, but was forced to retire at the height of her fame due to illness.
Selected filmography
* '' The Prisoner'' ...
.
It was shot at the
Göttingen Studios and
on location around
Bamberg
Bamberg (, , ; East Franconian: ''Bambärch'') is a town in Upper Franconia, Germany, on the river Regnitz close to its confluence with the river Main. The town dates back to the 9th century, when its name was derived from the nearby ' castle. C ...
in
Bavaria. The film's sets were designed by the
art director
Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film industry, film and television, the Internet, and video games.
It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...
Walter Haag.
Plot
The film portrays the attempts of a family of
Sudeten German
German Bohemians (german: Deutschböhmen und Deutschmährer, i.e. German Bohemians and German Moravians), later known as Sudeten Germans, were ethnic Germans living in the Czech lands of the Bohemian Crown, which later became an integral part ...
refugees struggling to adjust to living in post-war Germany following their
forced expulsion from Czechoslovakia. Eventually their daughter marries a soldier of the
American occupying forces, himself of German descent, and the whole family emigrate to the United States.
Cast
*
Mila Kopp as Mamitschka
*
Rudolf Platte as Tatinek
*