The Mad Bomberg (1957 film)

The Mad Bomberg (German: Der tolle Bomberg) is a 1957 West Germany comedy film directed by Rolf Thiele and starring Hans Albers, Marion Michael and Harald Juhnke.

It was shot at the Göttingen Studios with sets designed by the art directors Gabriel Pellon and Peter Röhrig.

The film is an adaptation of the 1923 novel of the same title by Josef Winckler which was based on a real historical Westphalian aristocrat of the nineteenth century.

[1] Baron Gisbert von Bomberg, a wealthy and eccentric lover of practical jokes, leaves the army and returns home.

To avoid another possible marriage, von Bomberg fakes his own death.