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The Hero of My Dreams

1960 film by Arthur Maria Rabenalt

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ21914296 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Hero of My Dreams (German: Der Held meiner Träume) is a 1960 West German romantic comedy film directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt and starring Carlos Thompson, Heidi Brühl and Peter Vogel. It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Max Mellin and Karl Weber.

Cast

Carlos Thompson as Robert Moutier

Heidi Brühl as Marianne Kleinschmidt

Peter Vogel as Oliver Martens

Maria Perschy as Franziska Kleinschmidt

Margitta Scherr as Petra Martens

Klaus Dahlen as Bernhard Kleinschmidt

Marte Harell as Frau Martens

Edith Mill as Frau Kleinschmidt

Lucie Englisch as Huberbäuerin

Hans Zesch-Ballot as Günther Martens

Hans Elwenspoek as Hugo Kleinschmidt

Franz Fröhlich as Huberbauer

Ernst Brasch

Bum Krüger

See also

Happy Days (France, 1941)

Happy Days (Italy, 1942)

References

Bibliography

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

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “The Hero of My Dreams” as 1960 film by Arthur Maria Rabenalt. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Hero, Dreams and film.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1960, 1941, 1942, 2009—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1960-08-05. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Hero, Dreams and film providing the first useful test.
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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q21914296. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1960, 1941, 1942 and 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Hero of My Dreams” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.