''The Mimosa Wants to Blossom Too'' (German: ''Auch Mimosen wollen blühen'') is a 1976 West German

comedy Comedy is a genre of dramatic works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium. Origins Comedy originated in ancient Greec ...

spy film The spy film, also known as the spy thriller, is a film genre, genre of film that deals with the subject of fictional espionage, either in a realistic way (such as the adaptations of John le Carré) or as a basis for fantasy (such as many Jame ...

directed by Helmut Meewes and starring

Curd Jürgens Curd Gustav Andreas Gottlieb Franz Jürgens (13 December 191518 June 1982) was a German-Austrian stage and film actor. He was usually billed in English-speaking films as Curt Jurgens. He was well known for playing Ernst Udet in ''Des Teufels Gener ...

Eric Pohlmann Eric Pohlmann (; born Erich Pollak; 18 July 1913 – 25 July 1979) was an Austrian theatre, film and television character actor who worked mostly in the United Kingdom. He is known for voicing Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the primary antagonist of t ...

and Horst Frank.Bock & Bergfelder p.131 The film's sets were designed by the

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Peter Rothe.

Cast

as Josef Popov *

as Iwan Pederenko * Horst Frank as Oberst Oschenko *

Susi Nicoletti Susi Nicoletti (3 September 1918 – 5 June 2005) was a Bavarian-born actress best remembered today for over 100 supporting roles mostly in comedy films. She was born as Susanne Emilie Luise Adele Habersack in Munich, but spent most of her child ...

as Emily Hopkins *

Heinz Reincke Karl-Heinz Reincke (28 May 1925 – 13 July 2011) was a German-born actor, long-based in Vienna. He was drafted into the German Army in 1943, commissioned as an officer in 1944, captured by the Americans at the end of war and then turned over to ...

as Obdachloser * Barbara Nielsen as Ludmilla * Chiquita Gordon as Miss Ly * Erich Padalewski as Mr. Gate * Ljuba Welitsch as Lady Shots * Harry Hardt as Sir Shots

References

Bibliography

* Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009.

External links

* 1976 films 1970s spy comedy films German spy comedy films West German films 1970s German-language films Films directed by Helmut Meewes Cold War spy films Constantin Film films 1976 comedy films 1970s German films {{1970s-Germany-film-stub