The Missing Miniature

The Missing Miniature () is a 1954 West German comedy crime film directed by Carl-Heinz Schroth and starring Paola Loew, Ralph Lothar and Paul Westermeier. It is based on the 1935 story of the same name by Erich Kästner.

While on holiday in Copenhagen, a butcher meets a young woman in a café and agrees to transport a miniature painting back to Germany for her. This soon leads to complications.

Cast
 Paola LoewIrene Truebner
 Ralph Lothar as Rudolf Struwe
 Paul Westermeier as Fleischermeister Külz
 Paul Bildt as Steinhövel
 Lina Carstens as Frau Külz
 Hubert von Meyerinck as Tänzer
 Liesl Karlstadt
 Wolf Ackva
 Hildegard Busse
 Elisabeth Goebel
 Heini Göbel
 Willem Holsboer
 Bruno Hübner
 Bum Krüger
 Henry Lorenzen
 Karl-Heinz Peters
 Erich Ponto
 Ernst Rotmund
 Arnulf Schröder

References

Bibliography 
 Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.

External links 
 

Category:1954 films
Category:1950s crime comedy films
Category:German comedy films
Category:West German films
Category:German-language films
Category:Films directed by Carl-Heinz Schroth
Category:Films set in Copenhagen
Category:Films based on German novels
Category:Films based on works by Erich Kästner