Kitty and the World Conference
Directed by: Helmut Käutner
Written by: Stefan Donat (play) and Helmut Käutner
Cinematography: Willy Winterstein
Edited by: Fritz Stapenhorst
Music by: Michael Jary
Production company: Terra Film
Distributed by: Terra Film
Release date: 25 August 1939
Running time: 97 minutes
Country: Germany
Language: German
Starring:
Hannelore Schroth: Kitty
Fritz Odemar: Sir Horace Ashlin
Christian Gollong: Piet Enthousen, Dutch journalist
Maria Nicklisch: Irene Sorel
Max Gülstorff: Tristan de Gavard
Paul Hörbiger: Huber
Charlott Daudert: Mimi
Hermann Pfeiffer: Paillot
Hubert von Meyerinck: Carter
Helmut Weiss: Bradsley
Leopold von Ledebur: Mason, British ministerial secretary
Herbert Hübner: the Ministry of Economy of Coprador
Wilhelm Bendow: French minister
Harald Wolff: Collins, secretary of the British delegation
Franz Arzdorf: Füßli, director of the Grand Hotel Eden
Eduard Bornträger: The barman in the Eden Bar
Max Harry Ernst: The hairdresser of Enrico Palpiti
Charles Francois: A dancer in the Eden Bar
Ali Ghito: A secretary
Armin Münch: The waiter at the lake restaurant
Leo Peukert: Enrico Palpiti, owner of the manicure salon
Bert Schmidt-Maris: Elevator attendant at the Grand Hotel Eden
Beppo Schwaiger: The third doorman at the Grand Hotel
Annemarie Schäfer: Erdely, journalist of the world press
Rudolf Schündler: A radio reporter
Gert Scott-Iversen: Ms. Holgerson, journalist of the world press
Werner Stock: Neumeier, the second doorman at the Grand Hotel Eden
Michael von Newlinsky: the headwaiter at the lake restaurant
Plot
Kitty and the World Conference (German: Kitty und die Weltkonferenz) is a 1939 German comedy film directed by Helmut Käutner and starring Hannelore Schroth, Fritz Odemar and Christian Gollong. It is a screwball comedy set against the backdrop of an international peace conference. Following the outbreak of the Second World War, Propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels ordered it withdrawn from cinemas as it he felt it presented too favourable a view of Britain.
It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin. The film’s sets were designed by art director Max Mellin. The story was based on a play, which served as the basis for the 1956 remake Kitty and the Great Big World.
