Adieu, Lebewohl, Goodbye (1961)

The firm and resolute Tilli Adler is the "mother of the company" of a young troupe of artists called "Kolibri", with whom she travels the country from performance to performance. Next up is an engagement in Rome, which the lively group of singers are already looking forward to. As the famous Tiller girls are also performing at the same event, Tilli places great importance on rehearsals, rehearsals, rehearsals, which she begins during the bus journey to the sunny south. During the journey, they see a young man on the side of the road with a little boy at his side. They stop and ask if they can give them a lift. The girls have no idea that this man is a cunning sensationalist reporter called Ralph Martell, who is hoping to find a useful story here. The fuzzy-headed eight-year-old boy is called Carlo and is none other than the missing son of a major toy manufacturer. While it is assumed that the rascal has been kidnapped, the little boy has simply run away from home because his busy parents Luciano and Eva Moretti, a well-known singer, have too little time for him. He is soon the subject of a major police manhunt. Carlos' destination is Naples, where his grandfather lives. Carlo Gualdi, as he is known, runs a small ice cream stand there. When Martell picked up the little boy, he immediately sensed a usable story. But now one mix-up follows another, and little Carlo does everything he can to add to the chaos of the traveling party from Germania. The genre-standard happy ending means that Carlo returns to his parents after tracking down his grandfather, Martell gets his story and, incidentally, meets and falls in love with the woman of his life, the perky brunette Gaby, a member of the "Kolibris". And in the end, Tilli Adler has managed to hold her own with her troupe alongside the Tiller girls and land a new engagement as a result. Between these story-lines, a whole host of popular hits of the time are presented, above all the chart hit "Babysitter Boogie" by and with Ralph Bendix.