Der Onkel aus Amerika plot
Entrepreneur Hermann Hartung (Arno Paulsen) has invested his entire fortune in an oil recovery project recommended by bank manager Brenner (Joe Stöckel). The shares turn out to be worthless, bankruptcy threatens, his wife Gertrud (Grethe Weiser) is dumbfounded and his daughter Elisabeth (Waltraut Haas) can write a marriage with a good party on her stomach. The bank is also in danger of breaking down. That's when news arrives in Groditzkirchen that Uncle Thomas Theodor Hoffmann (Hans Moser) is returning from America and rumor has it that he has become a millionaire across the pond and is going to invest his money in Groditzkirchen, thus saving Brenners. commercial bank.