Für die Katz'

Für die Katz'

1940 · 77 min · ★ 8.0 · Comedy

He who loves, torments himself: This turn of phrase works for the big farmer Gerd Tapken and his landlady Katrin Geerken. For more than 30 years, the two have fought at every opportunity, although they secretly love one another. But things seem to have come to a serious breach when Tapken shoots Katrin’s cat, because it allegedly ate three of his hens. The woman is so enraged over this brutality, that she contacts her lawyer. Thus begins a court case, in which the farmer might be fined or even go to jail!

Directed by Hermann Pfeiffer

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Hilde Jansen Meta Geerken
Axel Monjé Peter Tapken
Lina Carstens Katrin Geerken
Carsta Löck Magd Fieken
Rudolf Platte Knecht Frerk
Eduard von Winterstein Gerd Tapken
Paul Westermeier Rechtsberater Mählmann
Christa Siems Lena Tapken
Alfred Maack
Ernst Waldow Hannes Kruse
Fritz Hoopts Piephohn
Eduard Wenck Schütt

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