Taxi-Kitty

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Taxi-Kitty
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Carl Raddatz, Hannelore Schroth and Karl Schönböck
Directed by Kurt Hoffmann
Written by
Produced by Rolf Meyer
Starring
Cinematography Albert Benitz
Edited by Martha Dübber
Music by Franz Grothe
Production
company
Junge Film-Union Rolf Meyer
Distributed byNational-Film
Release date
  • 28 December 1950 (1950-12-28)
Running time
88 minutes
CountryWest Germany
LanguageGerman

Taxi-Kitty is a 1950 West German musical comedy film directed by Kurt Hoffmann and starring Hannelore Schroth, Carl Raddatz and Fita Benkhoff. [1] The film was made at the Bendestorf Studios. The film's sets were designed by the art director Franz Schroedter. It was partly shot in Hamburg.

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Synopsis

In Hamburg, an out-of-work singer gets a job selling refreshments in a canteen for taxi drivers. When she gets her big break as a singer, she turns it down to marry one of the drivers.

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  1. Bock & Bergfelder p. 207

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