Three Girls from the Rhine

Three Girls from the Rhine
Directed by	Georg Jacoby
Written by	Hanns H. Fischer Georg Jacoby Bobby E. Lüthge Joachim Wedekind
Produced by	Gero Wecker Helmuth Volmer
Starring	Gardy Granass Margit Saad Fita Benkhoff
Cinematography	Erich Claunigk
Edited by	Martha Dübber
Music by	Franz Grothe
Production company	Arca-Filmproduktion
Distributed by	Allianz Filmverleih
Release date	25 November 1955 (1955-11-25)
Running time	90 minutes
Country	West Germany
Language	German

Three Girls from the Rhine (German: Drei Mädels vom Rhein) is a 1955 West German comedy film directed by Georg Jacoby and starring Gardy Granass, Margit Saad and Fita Benkhoff. It was shot at the Tempelhof and Spandau Studios in West Berlin and the Wandsbek Studios in Hamburg. Filmed in Eastmancolor, location shooting took place in the Mosel including around Zell and at Schloss Lieser. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Erich Kettelhut and Johannes Ott.

Synopsis

Ever since a large hotel opened nearby, an inn in a wine-producing town on the Rhine has been struggling financially. The owner wants to retain control and pass the inn on to her three daughters, refusing offers to turn it into a milk bar. Her daughters set out to make sure the inn hosts the annual wine festival in order to save it.

Cast

• Gardy Granass as Susanne Hübner
• Margit Saad as Kitty Drechsler
• Fita Benkhoff as Therese Hübner
• Topsy Küppers as Sabine Hübner
• Siegfried Breuer Jr. as Werner Schulenburg
• Paul Henckels as Hannes
• Heinz Hilpert as Paul Schulenburg
• Robert Meyn as Philipp Drechsler
• Angelika Meissner as Kathrin Hübner
• Wolfgang Wahl as Fritz Junghans
• Frank Holms as Jack
• Ruth von Hagen as Rosa

Bibliography

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

External links

• Three Girls from the Rhine at IMDb