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My Friend Barbara

8.019371h 20mMovieComedy

Barbara's family is poor and she needs to come up with a way to pay the gas bill. At her job in a cinema she listens to the conversation of a cheating wife and her affair. Barbara offers the husband of the cheating wife, a wealthy chemist,…

DirectorFritz Kirchhoff
WritersWilli Kollo·Fritz Kirchhoff

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Cast · Directed by Fritz Kirchhoff

GWGrethe Weiser
Grethe Weiser
Barbara
FZFranz Zimmermann
Franz Zimmermann
Frank Andermann
PHPaul Hoffmann
Paul Hoffmann
Dr. Manfred Reinerz, Chemiker und Erfinder
ERElisabeth Ried
Elisabeth Ried
Stefanie
IKIngeborg von Kusserow
Ingeborg von Kusserow
Lucie
EB
Ellen Bang
Ursula, Barbaras jüngere Schwester
MZManny Ziener
Manny Ziener
Frau Werner, Barbaras und Ursulas Mutter
HLHans Leibelt
Hans Leibelt
Andermann sen.
WK
Wilhelm P. Krüger
Lohmeyer, Hauswart
AS
Arthur Schröder
Der Hotelchef
JTJakob Tiedtke
Jakob Tiedtke
Stockinger
LM
Luise Morland
Emelie

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