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The Trousers
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Wikipedia article
'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.Kreimeier p.138 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.Prawer p.83
Cast
* Werner Krauss as Theobald Maske
* Jenny Jugo as Luise Maske
* Rudolf Forster as Scarron
* Veit Harlan as Mandelstam
* Christian Bummerstaedt as Frst
* 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.
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