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1937 Nazi Germany film

Such Great Foolishness
German film poster

German	Die ganz großen Torheiten

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	Tobis Europa Tobis-Sascha (Austria)
Release date	30 April 1937 (1937-04-30)
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.

It was shot at the Sievering Studios in Vienna and the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin.

Cast

Paula Wessely as Therese Brandl
Rudolf Forster as Dr. Alexander Dahlen
Hilde Wagener as Irene von Baldaß - journalist
Gustav Waldau as Count Hoyer
Hedwig Bleibtreu as Countess Hoyer
Egon von Jordan as Baron Gigi, nephew
Bruno Hübner as valet in the house of Hoyer
Hans Olden as Redl - Dahlen's secretary
Gretl Theimer as Fritzi
Karl Hellmer as concierge at the hotel 'Stern'
Georges Boulanger as Zigeunerprimas: Violin
Kurt Meisel as Specht - broadcast announcer
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

References

Hake, Sabine (2001). Popular Cinema of the Third Reich. Austin: University of Texas Press. p. 156. ISBN 978-0-292-73458-6.

External links

Such Great Foolishness at IMDb

v t e Films directed by Carl Froelich
Werner Krafft (1916) Ikarus, the Flying Man (1918) The Destiny of Carola van Geldern (1919) The Loves of Käthe Keller (1919) The Dancer (1919) In Thrall to the Claw (1921) Wandering Souls (1921) The Kwannon of Okadera (1921) Island of the Dead (1921) The Brothers Karamazov (1921) Good-for-Nothing (1922) Luise Millerin (1922) Hallig Hooge (1923) The Weather Station (1923) Mother and Child (1924) The Adventures of Sybil Brent (1925) Chamber Music (1925) Tragedy (1925) The Flames Lie (1926) Roses from the South (1926) When She Starts, Look Out (1926) The Long Intermission (1927) My Aunt, Your Aunt (1927) Love in the Cowshed (1928) Lotte (1928) Love and Thieves (1928) Escape (1928) Violantha (1928) The Night Belongs to Us (1929) German Wine (1929) The Woman Everyone Loves Is You (1929) Hans in Every Street (1930) Fire in the Opera House (1930) The Night Is Ours (1930) Louise, Queen of Prussia (1931) Mädchen in Uniform (1931) This One or None (1932) Gitta Discovers Her Heart (1932) Love at First Sight (1932) The Hymn of Leuthen (1933) Ripening Youth (1933) Trouble with Jolanthe (1934) Sergeant Schwenke (1935) I Was Jack Mortimer (1935) The Private Life of Louis XIV (1935) The Dreamer (1936) When the Cock Crows (1936) If We All Were Angels (1936) Such Great Foolishness (1937) Heimat (1938) The Roundabouts of Handsome Karl (1938) The Four Companions (1938) The Life and Loves of Tschaikovsky (1939) The Gasman (1941) Wedding in Barenhof (1942) The Buchholz Family (1944) Marriage of Affection (1944) Three Girls Spinning (1950) Stips (1951)

Films directed by Carl Froelich

Werner Krafft (1916)
Ikarus, the Flying Man (1918)
The Destiny of Carola van Geldern (1919)
The Loves of Käthe Keller (1919)
The Dancer (1919)
In Thrall to the Claw (1921)
Wandering Souls (1921)
The Kwannon of Okadera (1921)
Island of the Dead (1921)
The Brothers Karamazov (1921)
Good-for-Nothing (1922)
Luise Millerin (1922)
Hallig Hooge (1923)
The Weather Station (1923)
Mother and Child (1924)
The Adventures of Sybil Brent (1925)
Chamber Music (1925)
Tragedy (1925)
The Flames Lie (1926)
Roses from the South (1926)
When She Starts, Look Out (1926)
The Long Intermission (1927)
My Aunt, Your Aunt (1927)
Love in the Cowshed (1928)
Lotte (1928)
Love and Thieves (1928)
Escape (1928)
Violantha (1928)
The Night Belongs to Us (1929)
German Wine (1929)
The Woman Everyone Loves Is You (1929)
Hans in Every Street (1930)
Fire in the Opera House (1930)
The Night Is Ours (1930)
Louise, Queen of Prussia (1931)
Mädchen in Uniform (1931)
This One or None (1932)
Gitta Discovers Her Heart (1932)
Love at First Sight (1932)
The Hymn of Leuthen (1933)
Ripening Youth (1933)
Trouble with Jolanthe (1934)
Sergeant Schwenke (1935)
I Was Jack Mortimer (1935)
The Private Life of Louis XIV (1935)
The Dreamer (1936)
When the Cock Crows (1936)
If We All Were Angels (1936)
Such Great Foolishness (1937)
Heimat (1938)
The Roundabouts of Handsome Karl (1938)
The Four Companions (1938)
The Life and Loves of Tschaikovsky (1939)
The Gasman (1941)
Wedding in Barenhof (1942)
The Buchholz Family (1944)
Marriage of Affection (1944)
Three Girls Spinning (1950)
Stips (1951)

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