After many years on the oceans, sailor Hannes Wedderkamp has finally returned to Hamburg. On St. Pauli, Hannes sings songs from the sea in the hippodrome of his best friend Pitter Breuer on the Reeperbahn with the "Quetschkommode" songs and cares for the audience.
Acting
Albers and Rühmann's rare, magnetic pairing
Direction
Liebeneiner captures St. Pauli's nocturnal soul
Score
Sea shanties meet schlager in the 'Quetschkommode'
Director
Wolfgang Liebeneiner
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title references a famous 1912 song by Hans Albers himself, making this a meta-commentary on his own mythic persona.
This was the only time Albers and Rühmann—arguably Germany's two biggest male stars—appeared together on screen.
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