What Is Father Doing in Italy?

What Is Father Doing in Italy?
Directed by	Hans Dieter Schwarze
Written by	Ilse Lotz-Dupont
Produced by	Franz Seitz
Starring	Willy Fritsch Gerhard Riedmann Peter Kraus
Cinematography	Dieter Wedekind
Music by	Henry Mayer
Production company	Franz Seitz Filmproduktion
Distributed by	Constantin Film
Release date	8 September 1961 (1961-09-08)
Running time	97 minutes
Country	West Germany
Language	German

What Is Father Doing in Italy? (German: Was macht Papa denn in Italien?) is a 1961 West German musical comedy film directed by Hans Dieter Schwarze and starring Willy Fritsch, Gerhard Riedmann and Peter Kraus. It was shot in Agfacolor.

Cast

• Willy Fritsch as Studienrat Hanselmann
• Gerhard Riedmann as Amilare Barnabas
• Peter Kraus as Klaus Stumpf
• Claus Biederstaedt as Matthias Daniel
• Jane Tilden as Therese Hanselmann
• Barbara Frey as Sabine
• Monika Dahlberg as Sophie
• Mara Lane as Nadja Lamar
• Werner Finck as Direktor Schlosser
• Alwy Becker as Christine
• Rudolf Rhomberg as Signore Nobile
• Elke Aberle as Tönchen
• Peter W. Staub as Zöllner Dubi
• Charlotte Witthauer as Frau Moll
• Joachim Wichmann
• Harald Juhnke as Herr Akaschian
• Ralf Bendix as Singer
• Siw Malmkvist as Singer
• Gaby King as Gabriele / Singer

Bibliography

• Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.

External links

• What Is Father Doing in Italy? at IMDb