My Friend Barbara

(1937)

★ 8 IMDb · 1 votes

Genres: Comedy

Year: 1937

Runtime: 80 мин

Country: Germany

Director: Fritz Kirchhoff

Cast: Grethe Weiser, Franz Zimmermann, Paul Hoffmann, Elisabeth Ried, Ingeborg von Kusserow, Ellen Bang, Manny Ziener, Hans Leibelt, Wilhelm P. Krüger, Arthur Schröder

Plot

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, to help him get his wife back. Her plan is a bizarre sharade in which Barbara plays the role of the chemist's affair to make his wife jealous. Of course, this backfires in every way imaginable.