The Trousers
| The Trousers | |
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| Directed by | Hans Behrendt |
| Written by | Carl Sternheim (play) Franz Schulz |
| Starring | Werner Krauss Jenny Jugo Rudolf Forster Veit Harlan |
| Cinematography | Carl Drews |
| Music by | Willy Schmidt-Gentner |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Phoebus-Film |
Release date | 20 August 1927 |
| Country | Germany |
| Languages | Silent German intertitles |
The Trousers (German: Die Hose) is a 1927 German silent comedy film directed by Hans Behrendt and starring Werner Krauss, Jenny Jugo and Rudolf Forster. It was based on a play by Carl Sternheim.[1] Art direction was by Heinrich Richter and Franz Schroedter. The film is notable for the performance of Veit Harlan, later the director who made the controversial antisemitic Jew Suss, as a Jewish barber in a film made by a director who would later died in the holocaust.[2]
Cast
- Werner Krauss as Theobald Maske
- Jenny Jugo as Luise Maske
- Rudolf Forster as Scarron
- Veit Harlan as Mandelstam
- Christian Bummerstaedt as Fürst
- Olga Limburg as Elfri de Deuter
References
Bibliography
- Kreimeier, Klaus. The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918-1945. University of California Press, 1999.
- Prawer, S.S. Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933. Berghahn Books, 2005.
External links
- The Trousers at IMDb
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