# Father Needs a Wife

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1952 film

Father Needs a Wife Theatrical film poster German Vater braucht eine Frau Directed by Harald Braun Written by Christian Bock Herbert Reinecker Herbert Witt Produced by Harald Braun Starring Dieter Borsche Ruth Leuwerik Bruni Löbel Cinematography Richard Angst Edited by Claus von Boro Music by Franz Grothe Production company Neue Deutsche Filmgesellschaft Distributed by Schorcht Filmverleih Release date 17 October 1952 (1952-10-17) Running time 98 minutes Country West Germany Language German

***Father Needs a Wife*** ([German](/source/German_language): ***Vater braucht eine Frau***) is a 1952 West German [comedy film](/source/Comedy_film) directed by [Harald Braun](/source/Harald_Braun_(director)) and starring [Dieter Borsche](/source/Dieter_Borsche), [Ruth Leuwerik](/source/Ruth_Leuwerik) and [Bruni Löbel](/source/Bruni_L%C3%B6bel).[1] It was made at the [Bavaria Studios](/source/Bavaria_Studios) in [Munich](/source/Munich) and [on location](/source/Location_shooting) around [Lautersee](/source/Lautersee) and [Mittenwald](/source/Mittenwald). The film's sets were designed by the [art directors](/source/Art_director) [Hans Sohnle](/source/Hans_Sohnle) and [Fritz Lück](/source/Fritz_L%C3%BCck).

## Plot

A widowed father advertises for a new [maid](/source/Maid), but his children secretly seek a woman to be his new wife.

## Cast

- [Dieter Borsche](/source/Dieter_Borsche) as Dr. Hans Neumeister

- [Ruth Leuwerik](/source/Ruth_Leuwerik) as Susanne Meissner

- [Bruni Löbel](/source/Bruni_L%C3%B6bel) as Lotti Hellwig

- [Günther Lüders](/source/G%C3%BCnther_L%C3%BCders) as Photograph Kurt Fischer

- [Therese Giehse](/source/Therese_Giehse) as Frau Nickel

- [Paul Bildt](/source/Paul_Bildt) as Herr in der Anzeigenannahme

- [Wera Frydtberg](/source/Wera_Frydtberg) as Gisela

- Angelika Meissner as Ulla Neumeister - daughter

- Urs Hess as Philipp Neumeister - Age 11

- Migg Hess as Martin Neumeister - Age 10

- [Oliver Grimm](/source/Oliver_Grimm) as Tom Neumeister - Age 4

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Hake, Sabine (2009). [Bock, Hans-Michael](/source/Hans-Michael_Bock); Bergfelder, Tim (eds.). *The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema*. New York, NY: [Berghahn Books](/source/Berghahn_Books). p. 282. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.2307/j.ctt1x76dm6](https://doi.org/10.2307%2Fj.ctt1x76dm6). [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1571816559](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1571816559). [JSTOR](/source/JSTOR_(identifier)) [j.ctt1x76dm6](https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1x76dm6). [S2CID](/source/S2CID_(identifier)) [252868046](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:252868046).

## External links

- [*Father Needs a Wife*](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045285/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier))

v t e Films directed by Harald Braun Between Heaven and Earth (1942) Love Me (1942) Nora (1944) Dreaming (1944) The Silent Guest (1945) Between Yesterday and Tomorrow (1947) Keepers of the Night (1949) The Falling Star (1950) Father Needs a Wife (1952) No Greater Love (1952) As Long as You're Near Me (1953) Königliche Hoheit (1953) The Last Summer (1954) The Last Man (1955) Regine (1956) The Glass Tower (1957) King in Shadow (1957) The Ambassador (1960)

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