Hurrah! I'm a Father or Hurrah! I'm a Papa (German: Hurra, ich bin Papa) is a 1939 German comedy film directed by Kurt Hoffmann and starring Heinz Rühmann, Albert Florath, and Carola Höhn.[1]

Hurrah! I'm a Father
Directed byKurt Hoffmann
Written byThea von Harbou
Starring
CinematographyOskar Schnirch
Edited byHelmuth Schönnenbeck
Music byHans Lang
Production
companies
Release date
  • 16 November 1939 (1939-11-16)
Running time
81 minutes
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman

It was shot at the Marienfelde and Tempelhof Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Heinrich Beisenherz and Alfred Bütow.

Synopsis edit

Peter, a dissolute student, ignores his wealthy farmer father's attempts to get him to reform. However, when he finds a small child left in a room with a note attached explaining that he is the child's father he is forced to become a changed man. He hires a young woman to act as the child's nurse not realizing that she is really the child's mother.

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References edit

  1. ^ Hake, p. 98.

Bibliography edit

  • Hake, Sabine (2001). Popular Cinema of the Third Reich. Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-73458-6.

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