---
title: 'It Can''t Always Be Caviar (1961)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Helmut Käutner'
released: '1961-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 106
genres:
  - 'Comedy'
countries:
  - 'Germany'
  - 'France'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/it-cant-always-be-caviar-1961'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054855/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# It Can't Always Be Caviar (1961)

1961 · 106 min · Comedy · Germany, France

Original title: Es muß nicht immer Kaviar sein

## Synopsis

It Can't Always Be Caviar is a 1961 French-West German comedy thriller film directed by Géza von Radványi and starring O.W. Fischer, Eva Bartok and Senta Berger. It was shot at the Spandau Studios in West Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Hertha Hareiter and Otto Pischinger. It is based on the 1960 novel of the same title by the Austrian writer Johannes Mario Simmel. It was followed be a sequel film This Time It Must Be Caviar, released later the same year. In 1977 a television adaptation of the novel was produced.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Helmut Käutner](https://cinepixo.com/people/helmut-kautner), [Georg Marischka](https://cinepixo.com/people/georg-marischka), [Géza von Radványi](https://cinepixo.com/people/geza-von-radvanyi)
- **Screenplay:** [Johannes Mario Simmel](https://cinepixo.com/people/johannes-mario-simmel), [Henri Jeanson](https://cinepixo.com/people/henri-jeanson), [Jean Ferry](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-ferry)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Rolf Alexander Wilhelm](https://cinepixo.com/people/rolf-alexander-wilhelm)
- **Producer:** [Artur Brauner](https://cinepixo.com/people/artur-brauner)
- **Director of Photography:** [Friedl Behn-Grund](https://cinepixo.com/people/friedl-behn-grund), [Göran Strindberg](https://cinepixo.com/people/goran-strindberg)
- **Editor:** [Walter Wischniewsky](https://cinepixo.com/people/walter-wischniewsky)

## Cast

- [Senta Berger](https://cinepixo.com/people/senta-berger)
- [Jean Richard](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-richard)
- [Geneviève Cluny](https://cinepixo.com/people/genevieve-cluny)
- [Axel von Ambesser](https://cinepixo.com/people/axel-von-ambesser)
- [Günter Meisner](https://cinepixo.com/people/gunter-meisner)
- [Werner Peters](https://cinepixo.com/people/werner-peters)
- [Viktor de Kowa](https://cinepixo.com/people/viktor-de-kowa)
- [Karl Schönböck](https://cinepixo.com/people/karl-schonbock)
- [Brigitte Grothum](https://cinepixo.com/people/brigitte-grothum)
- [O. W. Fischer](https://cinepixo.com/people/o-w-fischer)
- [Geneviève Kervine](https://cinepixo.com/people/genevieve-kervine)
- [Wolfgang Reichmann](https://cinepixo.com/people/wolfgang-reichmann)
- [Peter Carsten](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-carsten)
- [Werner Finck](https://cinepixo.com/people/werner-finck)
- [Hans W. Hamacher](https://cinepixo.com/people/hans-w-hamacher)

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