Sigi Hofer

Les habitants d’Utopia (où il n’est pas difficile de reconnaître Vienne) rêvent de se débarrasser des juifs. L’Assemblée d’Utopie vote donc leur expulsion : la foule se réjouit, et voilà les juifs expulsés : on s’attarde longuement sur leurs lamentations, que ce soit à la synagogue ou chez eux ; on en montre certains sur les routes de l’exil, d’autres arrivant à Jérusalem et se trouvant singulièrement dépaysés. Enfin et surtout, on les voit sur des quais de gares, où ils prennent des trains sans retour…

In this German comedy, an enterprising American uncle comes from Chicago goes to the tiny town of Groditzkirchen to make a fortune on credit even though he only has $10 to his name. To do so, he enlists the aide of a bank clerk and begins posing as a millionaire.

Morris Brown, a New York gambler acquainted more with his checkbook than his prayer book, returns to Galicia with his very American daughter, Mollie (Molly Picon) for a family wedding. But Mollie, whose exuberant antics fill the film, unexpectedly meets her match--an engaging young yeshiva scholar who forsake tradition and joins the secular world to win her heart.

Steffi is in love with the unemployed musician Pepi. Still, her father the musical instrument retailer, Ignaz Korn, wants her to marry one of his card playing buddies, the butcher Burgstaller. When the typesetter, Cäsar Grün, purposely misprints a winning lottery number in the newspaper, Korn and Burgstaller, thinking they have won, pay the drinks for everybody in the Bock Café and then give away their businesses.