Für die Katz'
Released: September 13, 1940Runtime: 77 minLanguage: DE
He who loves, torments himself: This turn of phrase works for the big farmer Gerd Tapken and his landlady Katrin Geerken. For more than 30 years, the two have fought at every opportunity, although they secretly love one another. But things seem to have come to a serious breach when Tapken shoots Katrin’s cat, because it allegedly ate three of his hens. The woman is so enraged over this brutality, that she contacts her lawyer. Thus begins a court case, in which the farmer might be fined or even go to jail!
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Hilde Jansen
as Tochter Meta Geerken
Axel Monje
as Sohn Peter Tapken
Lina Carstens
as Wirtin Katrin Geerken
Carsta Lock
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Rudolf Platte
as Knecht Frerk
Eduard Von Winterstein
as Großbauer Gerd Tapken
Ernst Waldow
as Hannes Kruse
Paul Westermeier
as Rechtsberater Mählmann
Fritz Hoopts
as Piephohn
Eduard Wenck
as Schütt
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