An Old Heart Becomes Young Again

A gentle, old-fashioned comedy that blends warmth and light satire as a lonely industrialist discovers an unexpected family.

Directed by

Erich Engel

Genres

Comedy

Starring

Emil Jannings, Viktor de Kowa, Maria Landrock

Overview

All throughout his entire life, Friedrich Wilhelm Hoffmann let his career run roughshod over his personal life. He had no wife, because he was married instead to his chocolate factory. Now he’s old and gray, and his relatives, who are greedily waiting for him to kick the bucket so they can get their hands on his worldly goods, keep their distance from him. Then one day, an astonished Hoffmann is visited by a young woman named Brigitte, who asserts, that she’s his granddaughter. Suddenly, it all comes back to the old man: as a young man, he had a short, but intense, love affair, which he had to end on the insistence of his father.

How it feels

Warm, light, satirical and earnest. Measured and easy to follow.

About

Family, greed, identity, redemption

Content

Mild sexual content. No violence, gore or swearing.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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