Such Great Foolishness

Such Great Foolishness
Directed by	Carl Froelich
Written by	Marianne von Angern (novel) Erwin Heß
Produced by	Carl Froelich
Starring	Paula Wessely Rudolf Forster Hilde Wagener Gustav Waldau
Cinematography	Franz Planer
Edited by	Gustav Lohse
Music by	Ralph Benatzky
Production company	Carl Froelich Filmproduktion
Distributed by	Europea Film
Release date	30 April 1937
Running time	95 minutes
Country	Nazi Germany
Language	German

Such Great Foolishness (German:Die ganz großen Torheiten) is a 1937 German drama film directed by Carl Froelich and starring Paula Wessely, Rudolf Forster and Hilde Wagener. The film was set in Vienna, unusually for a German film of the time which had increasingly cut back on films set in Austria since the Nazi takeover of 1933. The film was based on a novel by Marianne von Angern.

Cast

• Paula Wessely as Therese Brandl
• Rudolf Forster as Dr. Alexander Dahlen
• Hilde Wagener as Irene von Baldaß - Journalistin
• Gustav Waldau as Graf Hoyer
• Hedwig Bleibtreu as Gräfin Hoyer
• Egon von Jordan as Baron Gigi - ihr Neffe
• Bruno Hübner as Kammerdiener im Hause Hoyer
• Hans Olden as Redl - Dahlens Sekretär
• Gretl Theimer as Fritzi
• Karl Hellmer as Portier im Hotel 'Stern'
• Georges Boulanger as Zigeunerprimas: Violin
• Kurt Meisel as Specht - Rundfunkansager
• Liesl Eckardt
• Grete Kaiser
• Klaus Pohl
• Margarete Schön
• Paul Wagner
• Traute Alpenburg
• Wilhelm Berling
• Julius Brandt
• Angelo Ferrari
• Edmund Firsbach
• Hella Gantzert
• Max Gerhardt
• Richard Godai
• Ellen Gutschmidt
• Karl Harbacher
• Hans Henninger
• Charlie Albert Huber
• Gerti Kammerzell
• Käthe Kroker
• Jochen Kuhlmey
• Harry Kupetz
• Helmut Lang
• Manfred Meurer
• Leo Reiter
• Margarethe Reiter
• Ellen Rüegg
• Alfred Schwarz
• Annemarie Schäfer
• Gert Scott-Iversen
• Hanns Waschatko
• Edi Winterfeldt

Bibliography

• Hake, Sabine. Popular Cinema of the Third Reich. University of Texas Press, 2001.

External links

• Such Great Foolishness at IMDb