Tante Trude aus Buxtehude

On her 21st birthday Gerda, a young student, is summoned by a solicitor who informs her that she has inherited one million Marks from a deceased aunt and will be presented with a suitcase later that day. When the suitcase is delivered to her apartment, Gerda and her friends Morits, Rudi and Karin are disappointed to find it does not contain the money, but a heap of old fashioned identical granny dresses, all looking the same. So she asks her friend Moritz, a gawky wannabe detective to sell them on to at least get some gain from her 'inheritance'. After Moritz trots off with the old dresses to sell them to a shop, the porter who previously delivered the case with the dresses comes back stating he had forgotten to deliver a letter which was part of the inheritance. The letter reveals that Gerda is indeed the beneficiary of the said inheritance, but to avoid any inheritance tax the money was placed in a bank deposit box in Austria and the key to that box sewn in one of these ten identical dresses.

Unknowingly of the events Moritz has already found the key and thoughtlessly put it in his pocket.

When he returns with the money he got for the dresses, the friends reveal the whole mess and all descend on the shop the dresses were sold to. However, the owner of the shop has already sold them on to a fashion store owner in Kitzbühel, Austria. So the friends rush off to Austria and try to locate the buyers of the dress who all reside in the castle hotel. They include an arrogant film star, a bad tempered mid aged woman with a dog, a lady who works at the hotel and the slightly gawky Bruno. The chase is on, partially in disguise, which causes lots of errors and confusion, to locate and to check every single dress without being too obvious. Nevertheless a thief learns about the inheritance and wants to grab it for himself. When the thief threatens the friends and demands the key, Moritz unknowingly hands him the real deposit box key which he had dismissed for being just some random key. The criminal heads off ready to claim the inheritance.

In the end Rudi, as well as the hotel director and a dim witted hotel page crossdress up as the deceased aunt Trude and appear at the bank directors office.

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• Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9.

• Tante Trude aus Buxtehude at IMDb
• Tante Trude aus Buxtehude is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive