It stars, and was written and directed by Wolf Schmidt and was based on a popular radio show.
It was followed by three sequels: Wolf Schmidt had made a successful radio series that ran from 1951 to 1958 but was unable to get finance for the film version so shot it in his own apartment in Friedberg.
[1] The movie was a hit and the first post-war German film to gross over one million marks ($250,000).
[1] It led to three sequels and a television series which ran from 1960 until 1963.
[3][4] This article related to a German film of the 1950s is a stub.