| The Model Husband | |
| Director: | Wolfgang Liebeneiner |
| Studio: | Imagoton |
| Distributor: | Tobis Film |
| Runtime: | 95 minutes |
| Country: | Germany |
The Model Husband (de|'''Der Mustergatte''') is a 1937 German comedy film directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner and starring Heinz Rühmann, Leny Marenbach, and Hans Söhnker.[1] It is based on a 1915 American play Fair and Warmer by Avery Hopwood. It was shot at the Johannisthal Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Otto Gülstorff and Hans Minzloff. The film was screened at the Venice Film Festival where it won an award. In the 1950s, it was remade twice: a 1956 West German film The Model Husband and a 1959 Swiss The Model Husband. The film was censored for youth by the Nazis.
A London banker makes a business trip to Venice where he falls in love with a woman who thinks her boyfriend is cheating. They get married.
Two years have passed and she is bored because he is indeed a "model husband" who never looks at other women and who other women show no interest in. Apparently she wished for a model husband but unconsciously desired a Don Juan. Once he understands, he acts like one (a little) and she falls in love with him all over again.