The House in Montevideo (1963)
October 16, 1963Release Date
The House in Montevideo (1963)
October 16, 1963Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Heinz Rühmann
Prof. Dr. Traugott Hermann Nägler
Ruth Leuwerik
Marianne Nägler
Paul Dahlke
Pastor Riesling
Hanne Wieder
Carmen de la Rocco
Ilse Pagé
Atlanta
Michael Verhoeven
Herbert
Viktor de Kowa
Anwalt
Pierre Franckh
Lohengrin Nägler
Details.
Release DateOctober 16, 1963
Original NameDas Haus in Montevideo
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 3m
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The House in Montevideo (German: Das Haus in Montevideo) is a 1963 German comedy film directed by Helmut Käutner and starring Heinz Rühmann, Ruth Leuwerik and Paul Dahlke.Professor Traugott Nägler, a man with high moral standards, once has repudiated his underage sister for having a baby out of wedlock. Many years later, having a loving wife and twelve children with only the small salary of a schoolmaster, he is told that said sister has died in South America, and that he should come with his oldest yet still underage daughter, Atlanta, who was named after the ship on which the couple was married at sea by the captain. In Uruguay, they find out that the sister had made a fortune and owned a house in Montevideo, an etablissement with several young ladies, that Atlanta inherits some money as marriage portion, and that a large amount of money could be inherited by the first underage female member in his house that behaves in the same disreputable way as the sister once did involuntarily. Not daring to tell his daughter Atlanta about the stipulation, and definitely not her younger sisters, he is anyway tempted to make helpful suggestions to her, and especially to her suitor who had followed them secretly. When the young couple wants to have their wedding on the same ship as her parents, they find out that size matters, and that Prof. Nägler has led a far more immoral life than his sister ever did.
The film was based on the 1945 play The House in Montevideo by Curt Goetz, which had previously been turned into a film in 1951.
It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Isabella Schlichting and Werner Schlichting.