The Trousers

The Trousers
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	Phoebus-Film
Distributed by	Phoebus-Film
Release date	20 August 1927 (1927-08-20)
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 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

1. Kreimeier p.138
2. 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