Genre: Comedy
Runtime: 95 min
Average vote: 6
Release date: 1957-06-26
Director: E.W. Emo
Writer: August Rieger
Writer: Hugo Wiener
Music: Hans Lang
Vienna, 1957: Head waiters Gustav (Paul Hörbiger) and Franz (Hans Moser) are working for the stinted Cafétier Panigl and are close friiends despite of their different characters. Franz is happily married and a good family father, Gustav, a relaxed charmer, is living a calm single life. Overnight both of them become jobless, because Panigl decided to sell his Café which was not successful anymore. Right in this moment, Franz' brother is sending 20.000 Dollar from USA. Money, he once peculated and now wants to pay back.. Gustav and Franz are buying half of the Café for each from the unexpected money. One half they develop as the modern Musicbox-Espresso «Pinguin», the other half as a traditional old style Vienna Café . Misunderstandings between guests and generations are inevitable and stretch the long term friendship of the two waiters.
Hans Moser
as
Franz Maxenber...
Paul Hörbiger
as
Gustav Prebichl
Mady Rahl
as
Frieda Lempke
Michael Cramer
as
Kurt Melzer
Lucie Englisch
as
Marie Maxenber...
Rudolf Carl
as
Panigl
Wolfgang Jansen
as
Fritz Lempke
Fritz Muliar
as
Oswald Melzer
Sabine Hahn
as
Mitzi Maxenber...
Lotte Ledl
as
Mali
Karin Himboldt
as
Susi
Herta Konrad
as
Ms. Hummel
Peter Gerhard
as
Choleric
Hans Unterkirc...
as
Chess Player
Franz Böheim
as
Drunk
Ferdinand Maye...
as
Hofrat