Flaming Hearts

Story

Synopsis

When Peter Huber the proprietor of a Bavarian corner newsstand, wins a free trip to New York City in a magazine contest, he is overjoyed. Filled with romantic ideas from the movies, his actual encounter with the gritty realities of the Big Apple are sobering. Nonetheless, he is in for the adventure of his life. First, he meets Karola Faber, the German wife of a U.S. G.I. who has found life in the States not all it's cracked up to be: she has left her husband and makes her living through prostitution. Peter and Karola visit the local German emigré community's Oktoberfest, and win the festival's King and Queen crown. Their prize is a cow, which accompanies them on their further journeys in New York City.

Directors

Rolf Bührmann, Walter Bockmayer

Writers

Rolf Bührmann, Walter Bockmayer

Language

German

Country

Germany

Release date

14 April 1978

Ensemble

Cast

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  Peter Kern

  Peter Huber

• 

  Barbara Valentin

  Karola Faber

• 

  Enzi Fuchs

  Anna Schlätel

• 

  Katja Rupé

  Magda Weberscheid

• 

  Armin Meier

  Fahrer

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  Evelyn Künneke

  Sängerin im Lokal

• Ila von Hasperg

  Verkäuferin