If the Father and the Son
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After Clown Teddy lost his son, he lost his gift for laughter. He opened a joke shop and lives above the shop. His landlady has had a foster son since birth, and Teddy decides to raise the child, who always believed that Teddy was his father. When the mother suddenly appears five years later and wants her son, Teddy decides to run away with the child and goes back onstage with his son. Will the family catch up with them, or will the mother never get her son back?
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Heinz Rühmann
Teddy Lemke
Oliver Grimm
Ulli
Waltraut Haas
Gerti
Robert Freitag
Roy Bentley
Pero Alexander
Donald Crossman
Fita Benkhoff
Miss Biermann
Carl-Heinz Schroth
Peepe
Rudolf Schündler
Man in the store
Sybil Werden
Jane Bentley
Herbert Kiper
Agent Miller
Hans Schwarz Jr.
Samson
Wolfgang Condrus
Blond boy with soccer ball (uncredited)
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