My Son the Minister

Overview

Sylvia has succeeded in making her son Robert a minister in the French Republic. His old servent, Gabriel, interrupts the young man during an "erotic" conference with the singer Betty. She's there, because her politically inappropriate songs is about to get her banned from the stage, which the minister would like to prevent. A fight breaks out between Robert and Gabriel and Sylvia, his mother, has to confess to Robert, that Gabriel is actually his father. When the minister once again misbehaves, this time at a ball, his servant and father Gabriel decides that the time has come to slap his son in everyone's presence. Robert is forced to resign and a journalist from the People's Front suggests Gabriel for the post of minister. - The film was classified after the end of the german third empire as a reservation film.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

July 6, 1937

Original language

German

Spoken languages

German

Countries

Germany

Production

UFA

Cast

Françoise Rosay,Bruno Ziener,Angelo Ferrari,Hadrian Maria Netto,Hilde Körber,Carl Auen,Paul Dahlke,Carl Jönsson,Charles Francois,Heli Finkenzellerand 7 more

Director

Veit Harlan

Writer

Karl Georg Külb,Edgar Kahn

Cinematography

Günther Anders

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0029225