''Stips'' is a 1951 West German

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film directed by

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and starring

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and

Eva Ingeborg Scholz Eva Ingeborg Scholz (16 February 1928 – 21 March 2022) was a German film and television actress. Biography Eva Ingeborg Scholz made her debut in the title role of the 1948 film ''1-2-3 Corona'' and appeared regularly in films over the follow ...

.Bock & Bergfelder p. 139 It was shot at the

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. The film's sets were designed by the art director Hans Luigi.

Synopsis

Doctor Dirkhoff, nicknamed Stips, was a popular but unconventional

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at a local

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. Many of the girls in his classes had romantic crushes on him. When he returns to the town nearly a decade later, now a widower, most of his former students are now happily married but his return reawakens their feelings for him.

Cast

as Dr. Klaus Michael Dirkhoff, genannt Stips *

as Katja Romberg *

as Regine Wülfing * Hans Richter as Albert Pollmann, Friseuer *

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as Elli P., geb. Pieper *

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as Stülpe, Burgkastellan *

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as Wilhelm Tobias, Schuldirektor *

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as Felix Sommer, Verleger *

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as Jutta S. *

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References

Bibliography

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

External links

* 1951 films 1951 romantic comedy films German romantic comedy films West German films 1950s German-language films Films directed by Carl Froelich Films shot at Tempelhof Studios German black-and-white films 1950s German films Films scored by Herbert Windt German-language romantic comedy films {{1950s-Germany-film-stub