Tante Trude aus Buxtehude
1971 film by Franz Josef Gottlieb
Tante Trude aus Buxtehude ("Aunt Trude from Buxtehude") is a 1971 West German comedy film directed by Franz Josef Gottlieb and starring Rudi Carrell, Ilja Richter and Theo Lingen. It was one of several German films in the wake of the 1959 film Some Like It Hot that used cross-dressing as a comic theme.
The film's sets were designed by Eberhard Schröder. Some of the film was shot in the Austrian city of Salzburg. It features a number of songs performed by leading German Schlager music singers of the era.
Synopsis
On her 21st birthday Gerda, a young student, is summoned by a solicitor who informs her that she has inherited one million Marks from a deceased aunt and will be presented with a suitcase later that day.
When the suitcase is delivered to her apartment, Gerda and her friends Morits, Rudi and Karin are disappointed to find it does not contain the money, but a heap of old fashioned identical granny dresses, all looking the same. So she asks her friend Moritz, a gawky wannabe detective to sell them on to at least get some gain from her 'inheritance'. After Moritz trots off with the old dresses to sell them to a shop, the porter who previously delivered the case with the dresses comes back stating he had forgotten to deliver a letter which was part of the inheritance.
The letter reveals that Gerda is indeed the beneficiary of the said inheritance, but to avoid any inheritance tax the money was placed in a bank deposit box in Austria and the key to that box sewn in one of these ten identical dresses.
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