13 Stühle - 13 Chairs (1938) English Subtitle

Lovecraftian
Published on Jul 2, 2024
Plot
A barber shop owner travels to Vienna to receive his inheritance from his late aunt. However, it appears all she has left him are thirteen old chairs. Needing to raise enough money to pay for his ticket back home, he sells them to a second-hand dealer. Only then does he discover a letter from his aunt telling him she has left 100,000 marks sewn into one of the chairs. He now sets out to track down the various new owners of the chairs to find the hidden money.

Cast
Heinz Rühmann as hairdresser Felix Rabe
Hans Moser as rag-and-bone man Alois Hofbauer
Annie Rosar as Karoline
Inge List as Lilly Walter
Hedwig Bleibtreu as Head Nurse in the House of Wise Men
Clementia Egies [de] as friend
Karl Skraup as furniture store owner
Alfred Neugebauer as Eberhardt
Maria Waldner as Frau Eberhardt
Rudolf Carl as Doorman at the Lerchengasse