Tales of a Young Scamp

Tales of a Young Scamp
Directed byHelmut Käutner
Written byKurt Heuser
Franz Seitz
Based onLausbubengeschichten by Ludwig Thoma
Produced byFranz Seitz
StarringHansi Kraus
Heidelinde Weis
Georg Thomalla
CinematographyHelmut Bahr
Adi Gürtner
Heinz Pehlke
Edited byKlaus Dudenhöfer
Music byRolf A. Wilhelm
Production
company
Franz Seitz Filmproduktion
Distributed byColumbia-Bavaria Filmgesellschaft
Release date
  • 15 October 1964 (1964-10-15)
Running time
102 minutes
CountryWest Germany
LanguageGerman

Tales of a Young Scamp (German: Lausbubengeschichten) is a 1964 West German period family comedy film directed by Helmut Käutner and starring Hansi Kraus, Heidelinde Weis and Georg Thomalla.[1] It was shot in Eastmancolor at the Bavaria Studios in Munich and on location around the resort town of Tegernsee. The film's sets were designed by the art director Wolf Englert.[2] It is based on a nostalgic depiction of Bavarian life in the late nineteenth century by Ludwig Thoma. It was a major commercial success and inspired a number of similar films into the 1970s.[3] The following year Aunt Frieda directed by Werner Jacobs was released, inspired by Thoma's novel of the same title.

Cast

References

  1. ^ Rother p.583
  2. ^ "Lausbubengeschichten". filmportal.de. Retrieved 2026-02-08.
  3. ^ Bergfelder p.71

Bibliography

  • Bergfelder, Tim. International Adventures: German Popular Cinema and European Co-Productions in the 1960s. Berghahn Books, 2005.
  • Rother, Rainer (ed.) German Film: From the Archives of the Deutsche Kinemathek. Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2024.