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| Directed by | Hans Behrendt |
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| Cinematography | Carl Drews |
| Music by | Willy Schmidt-Gentner |
| Production company | Phoebus-Film |
| Distributed by | Phoebus-Film |
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| Country | Germany |
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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. 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 later died in the holocaust.
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
- Kreimeier p.138
- Prawer p.83
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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- 1927 films
- Films of the Weimar Republic
- German silent feature films
- 1920s German-language films
- Films directed by Hans Behrendt
- German films based on plays
- 1927 comedy films
- Films with screenplays by Franz Schulz
- German black-and-white films
- Phoebus Film films
- Silent German comedy films
- 1920s German films
- Films scored by Willy Schmidt-Gentner
- German-language comedy films
- 1920s comedy film stubs
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