Kitty und die Weltkonferenz (1939)

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 Following the outbreak of the Second World War, Propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels ordered it withdrawn from cinemas as it he felt it presented too favourable a view of Britain.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.