Stips

Stips
Directed by	Carl Froelich
Written by	Hanns H. Fischer Carl Froelich
Starring	Gustav Fröhlich Heli Finkenzeller Eva Ingeborg Scholz
Cinematography	Bruno Stephan
Edited by	Walter von Bonhorst
Music by	Herbert Windt
Production companies	Carl Froelich-Film Cinephon-Film
Distributed by	Fortuna-Filmverleih
Release date	4 September 1951 (1951-09-04)
Running time	99 minutes
Country	West Germany
Language	German

Stips is a 1951 West German romantic comedy film directed by Carl Froelich and starring Gustav Fröhlich, Heli Finkenzeller and Eva Ingeborg Scholz. It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in West Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art director Hans Luigi.

Synopsis

Doctor Dirkhoff, nicknamed Stips, was a popular but unconventional art teacher at a local school. Many of the girls in his classes had romantic crushes on him. When he returns to the town nearly a decade later, now a widower, most of his former students are now happily married but his return reawakens their feelings for him.

Cast

• Gustav Fröhlich as Dr. Klaus Michael Dirkhoff, genannt Stips
• Heli Finkenzeller as Katja Romberg
• Eva Ingeborg Scholz as Regine Wülfing
• Hans Richter as Albert Pollmann, Friseuer
• Ruth Nimbach as Elli P., geb. Pieper
• Otto Gebühr as Stülpe, Burgkastellan
• Aribert Wäscher as Wilhelm Tobias, Schuldirektor
• Bruno Fritz as Felix Sommer, Verleger
• Ann Höling as Jutta S.
• Renate Barken
• Dagmar Biener
• Christa Fügner
• Sigrid Lagemann
• Eva Probst
• Violet Rensing

Bibliography

• Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.

External links

• Stips at IMDb