Such Great Foolishness
{{Infobox film
|name = Such Great Foolishness
|image = Such Great Foolishness.jpg
|caption = German film poster
|native_name = {{Infobox name module|de|Die ganz großen Torheiten}}
|director = Carl Froelich
|producer = Carl Froelich
|writer = Marianne von Angern (novel)
Erwin Heß
|starring = {{ubl|Paula Wessely|Rudolf Forster|Hilde Wagener|Gustav Waldau}}
|music = Ralph Benatzky
|cinematography = Franz Planer
|editing = Gustav Lohse
|studio = Carl Froelich Filmproduktion
|distributor = Tobis Europa
Tobis-Sascha (Austria)
|released = {{Film date|1937|4|30|df=yes}}
|runtime = 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.{{cite book|last=Hake|first=Sabine|title=Popular Cinema of the Third Reich|publisher=University of Texas Press|place=Austin|year=2001|page=156|isbn=978-0-292-73458-6}} 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
{{Cast listing|
- 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
{{Reflist}}
External links
- {{IMDb title|0028919}}
{{Carl Froelich}}
Category:Films of Nazi Germany
Category:Films directed by Carl Froelich
Category:Films based on Austrian novels
Category:Films shot at Sievering Studios
Category:Films shot at Tempelhof Studios
Category:Films scored by Ralph Benatzky
Category:German black-and-white films
Category:1930s German-language films
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