Movielogr
My Friend Barbara (1937)
Directed by Fritz Kirchhoff
Overview
Barbara’s family is poor and she needs to come up with a way to pay the gas bill. At her job in a cinema she listens to the conversation of a cheating wife and her affair. Barbara offers the husband of the cheating wife, a wealthy chemist, to help him get his wife back. Her plan is a bizarre sharade in which Barbara plays the role of the chemist’s affair to make his wife jealous. Of course, this backfires in every way imaginable.
Length 80 minutes
Actors
Grethe Weiser | Franz Zimmermann | Paul Hoffmann | Elisabeth Ried | Ingeborg von Kusserow | Ellen Bang | Manny Ziener | Hans Leibelt | Wilhelm P. Krüger | Arthur Schröder | Jakob Tiedtke | Luise Morland | Gudrun Ady | Inge Burg | Angelo Ferrari | Günther Ballier | Eduard Bornträger | Louise Mentges | Hildegard Busse | Valerie Borstel | Toni Tetzlaff | Walter Schramm-Dunker | Max Harry Ernst | Alfred Karen | Ursula Nest | Rolf J. Schindler | Gertrud Vigo | Dagmar Muthardt | Anni Andreae | Ernst Deitermann | Carola Franzius