My Friend Barbara
1937, German. Directed by Fritz Kirchhoff.
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.
- Runtime
- 1h 20m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- German
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Cast & crew
- Fritz KirchhoffDirector
- Grethe WeiserBarbara
- Franz ZimmermannFrank Andermann
- Paul HoffmannDr. Manfred Reinerz, Chemiker und Erfinder
- Elisabeth RiedStefanie
- Ingeborg von KusserowLucie
- Ellen BangUrsula, Barbaras jüngere Schwester
- Manny ZienerFrau Werner, Barbaras und Ursulas Mutter
- Hans LeibeltAndermann sen.
- Wilhelm P. KrügerLohmeyer, Hauswart
- Arthur SchröderDer Hotelchef
- Jakob TiedtkeStockinger
- Luise MorlandEmelie
Details
- Released
- 17 December 1937
- Original title
- Meine Freundin Barbara
- Country
- Germany
- Written by
- Willi Kollo, Fritz Kirchhoff
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My Friend Barbara runs 80 minutes (1h 20m).
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My Friend Barbara isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 17 December 1937. (Checked 12 November 2026.)
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Who directed My Friend Barbara?
My Friend Barbara (1937) was directed by Fritz Kirchhoff and stars Grethe Weiser, Franz Zimmermann, Paul Hoffmann.