Trouble Backstairs (1935 film)

Trouble Backstairs
Directed by	Veit Harlan
Written by	Maximilian Böttcher (play) Carl Junghans Reinhold Meißner
Produced by	Walter von Ercert Kurt Peters
Starring	Henny Porten Else Elster Rotraut Richter Gaston Briese
Cinematography	Bruno Mondi
Edited by	Ludolf Grisebach
Music by	Fritz Domina Will Meisel
Production company	A.B.C.-Film
Distributed by	NDLS
Release date	20 December 1935
Running time	83 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

Trouble Backstairs (German: Krach im Hinterhaus) is a 1935 German romantic comedy film directed by Veit Harlan and starring Henny Porten, Else Elster and Rotraut Richter. It marked the directoral debut of Harlan, who had previously worked as an actor, and quickly developed as a leading director of Nazi Germany. It was based on a play by Maximilian Böttcher, and was remade in 1949.

Cast

• Henny Porten as Frau Witwe Bock
• Else Elster as Ilse Bock, ihre Tochter
• Rotraut Richter as Edeltraut Panse
• Gaston Briese as Postoberschaffner Hermann Briese
• Ilse Fürstenberg as Frau Irma Schulze
• Hilde Sessak as Paula Schulze, Tochter
• Reinhold Bernt as August Krüger, Hausverwalter
• Gerda Kuffner as Malchen Krüger, seine Frau
• Gerhard Bienert as Bäckermeister Gustav Kluge
• Paul Mederow as Justizrat Dr. Horn
• Berthold Ebbecke as Assessor Dr. Erich Horn, sein Sohn
• Eduard von Winterstein as Amtsgerichtsrat Müller
• Helmut Weiss as Prosecutor
• Carl Jönsson as Vater Panse
• Erich Kestin as Mann im Zuschauerraum
• Meta Jäger as Frau Döring
• Hanni Weisse as 1. Frau im Zuschauerraum
• Albrecht Bethge as Gerichtsdiener
• Otto Albrecht as Tenor
• Wera Schultz as 1. Verkäuferin
• Hilde Maris as 2. Verkäuferin
• Jutta Sabo as 2. Frau im Zuschauerraum
• Erika von Schaper as 3. Verkäuferin

Bibliography

• Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.
• Wistrich, Robert S. Who's Who in Nazi Germany. Routledge, 2013.

External links

• Trouble Backstairs at IMDb