95 minutes
12/8/1964
Building contractor Rainer Patschold gets into financial turmoil by his own fault. Without thinking much about it, he has invested advances and loans for the modest 'Waldfrieden' housing estate in the large and promising 'Seydlitzdamm' project. Now, of all times, sales manager Wirsing plays the sick man, trying to show Patschold how irreplaceable he is for the company. To make matters worse, chief secretary Liebstöckel also drops out, collapsing under the double burden of work stress and an unhappy love affair. In addition to the business crisis, Patschold's private life is also under strain: his neglected wife is on the verge of a nervous breakdown, and his demanding mistress Doris is closing in on him with bag and baggage. But the clever Patschold finally knows how to help himself with the help of his equally shrewd chauffeur Göhrke.
Walter Jokisch
as Rainer Patschold
Wera Frydtberg
as Charlotte Patschold
Uwe Friedrichsen
as Göhrke, the chauffeur
Werner Bruhns
as Günther Wirsing
Helga Feddersen
as Mrs. Austerley
Peter Capell
as Doctor Traubein
Elfriede Rückert
as Doris Röst
Ulrike Laurence
as Elfriede Bräu
Almut Eggert
as Antjemarie Reiser
Konrad Mayerhoff
as Adolf Maass
Emmy Percy-Wüstenhagen
as Rosel von Pless
Karyn von Ostholt
as Gitta Priebe
Ilsemarie Schnering
as Mrs. Reiser
Renate Küster
as Chansonette