parent child relationship,circus,clown

If the Father and the Son (1955)

Poster for If the Father and the Son

After Clown Teddy lost his son, he lost his gift for laughter. He opened a joke shop and lives above the shop. His landlady has had a foster son since birth, and Teddy decides to raise the child, who always believed that Teddy was his father. When the mother suddenly appears five years later and wants her son, Teddy decides to run away with the child and goes back onstage with his son. Will the family catch up with them, or will the mother never get her son back?

Cast & Crew

Director
Hans Quest
  • Profile picture of Heinz Rühmann
    Teddy Lemke Heinz Rühmann
  • Profile picture of Waltraut Haas
    Gerti Waltraut Haas
  • Profile picture of Robert Freitag
    Roy Bentley Robert Freitag
  • Profile picture of Pero Alexander
    Donald Crossman Pero Alexander
  • Profile picture of Fita Benkhoff
    Miss Biermann Fita Benkhoff
  • Profile picture of Rudolf Schündler
    Man in the store Rudolf Schündler
  • Profile picture of Sybil Werden
    Jane Bentley Sybil Werden
  • Profile picture of Herbert Kiper
    Agent Miller Herbert Kiper

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Keywords

  • parent child relationship
  • circus
  • clown