Father Needs a Wife (German: Vater braucht eine Frau) is a 1952 West German comedy film directed by Harald Braun and starring Dieter Borsche, Ruth Leuwerik and Bruni Löbel.

[1] It was made at the Bavaria Studios in Munich and on location around Lautersee and Mittenwald.

The film's sets were designed by the art directors Hans Sohnle and Fritz Lück.

A widowed father advertises for a new maid, but his children secretly seek a woman to be his new wife.

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