How Shall I Tell My Husband?

How Shall I Tell My Husband?

1932 · 74 min · ★ 5.5

The film starts in the fashionable seaside resort on the Baltic, Heringsdorf, where Renate Müller spends a secret weekend away from her husband with her bosom friend Ida Wüst. The husband meanwhile has a flirtation while traveling by night train from Frankfurt to Berlin, nice atmospheric shots of sleeper and dining car in the morning. The action continues in the luxury villas and apartments of Berlin, Renate Müller wears a string of very elegant outfits. Misunderstandings, jealousies, temporary separation of husband and wife, a few songs, wicked humour.

Directed by Reinhold Schünzel · Written by Heinz Gordon

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Renate Müller Charlotte Oltendorff
Georg Alexander Direktor Hans Oltendorff
Ida Wüst Hilde Falk
Georgia Lind Lissy
Paul Westermeier Fahrlehrer Adolf Schott
Heinz Gordon Rechtsanwalt Burghardt
Kurt Vespermann Diener Johann
Gertrud Wolle Frau Kötelhön
Otto Wallburg Hugo Brickner
Rudolf Platte Beamter

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