Our Willi Is the Best
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Retired tax official Willi Winzig spends his retirement happily and contentedly in his home. However, this changes when his sister Heidelinde, her daughter and his father want to move in with him, and as Willi is a good-natured man, he takes them in, but because they have no money and his pension is not enough for all four of them, he has to take on a new job. He gets a job as a salesman for household appliances, but his good nature gets in the way again.
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Edited by Alfred SrpShot by Karl LobScored by Peter Thomas
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- Unser Willi ist der Bestede
- Our Willi Is the Besten
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17 unique people credited
Top billed cast
Heinz Erhardt
as Willi Winzig
Ruth Stephan
as Heidelinde Hansen geb. Winzig
Rudolf Schundler
as Ottokar Mümmelmann
Elsa Wagner
as Alte Dame
Paul Esser
as Herr Kaiser
Jutta Speidel
as Brigitte 'Biggi' Hansen
Henry Vahl
as Opa Hansen
Sonja Wilken
as Villenbesitzerin Frau Konsul
Martin Hirthe
as Hauswirt Graumann
Edith Hancke
as Elsetraut Knöpfke
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