The Simple Girl

The film was directed by German director Werner Jacobs and produced by Artur Brauner. It is based on an idea by Curth Flatow who also wrote the screenplay, together with Eckart Hachfeld.[1] The working title was Bravo, Caterina. Horst Wendlandt was line producer and Brauner's wife, Maria, was in charge of costume design.[1] Filming took place in May 1957 at the Spandau Studios in Berlin.[1] The film's sets were designed by the art directors Emil Hasler and Paul Markwitz.

The film premiered on 23 August 1957 at the Thalia in Wiesbaden.[1]

Caterina Bastiani, a talented young actress, is offered the leading role in a musical. This is her big break but the author of the novel on which the musical is based is less than pleased about this adaption — and he does not think much of Caterina. Caterina meets a girl by accident who has applied to work for the author as a maid. She takes the girl's place in order to prove her talent as an actress and shows up at the author's home as the new maid herself.[1]

• Caterina Valente as Caterina Bastiani
• Rudolf Prack as Thomas Krauss
• Ruth Stephan as Milli
• Rudolf Platte as Werner Pätzold
• Dorit Kreysler as Mrs. Seidel
• Helen Vita as Eva Krapke
• Peter W. Staub as Pit
• Stefan Haar as Jürgen Krauss
• Richard Allan as Robert Holden
• Hans Olden as Anton Schwarz
• Franz-Otto Krüger as Regisseur
• Henry Lorenzen as Komponist Heino Kies
• Herbert Weißbach as Baron Westhoff[1]
• Edith Adana as Baronin Westhoff

• Hans-Michael Bock and Tim Bergfelder. The Concise Cinegraph: An Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.

• The Simple Girl at IMDb
• Artur-Brauner-Archive at the Deutsches Filmmuseum in Frankfurt (German), containing the production files for this movie