The Broken Jug (film)

{{Short description|1937 film}}

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{{Infobox film

|name = The Broken Jug

|image = The Broken Jug (film).jpg

|caption = German film poster

|native_name = {{Infobox name module|de|Der zerbrochene Krug}}

|director = Gustav Ucicky

|producer = Karl Julius Fritzsche
Fritz Klotsch

|based_on = The Broken Jug by Heinrich von Kleist

|writer = {{ubl|Thea von Harbou}}

|starring = {{ubl|Emil Jannings|Friedrich Kayßler|Max Gülstorff|Lina Carstens}}

|music = Wolfgang Zeller

|cinematography = Fritz Arno Wagner

|editing = Arnfried Heyne

|studio = Tobis Film

|distributor = Tobis Film

|budget=$350,000{{cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/details/variety113-1934-03/page/n86/mode/1up?q=%22cost+around%22|magazine=Variety|title=New London Filmer's Bilogual Jannings|page=15|date=13 March 1934}}

|released = {{Film date|1937|10|19|df=yes}}

|runtime = 86 minutes

|country = Nazi Germany

|language = German

}}

The Broken Jug ({{langx|de|Der zerbrochene Krug}}) is a 1937 German historical comedy film directed by Gustav Ucicky and starring Emil Jannings, Friedrich Kayßler and Max Gülstorff. It is an adaptation of the play The Broken Jug by Heinrich von Kleist. The film was a favorite of Adolf Hitler.{{cite book|last=Rentschler|first=Eric|title=The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife|publisher=Harvard University Press|year=1996|page=5|location=Cambridge, Mass|isbn=978-0-674-57640-7|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/ministryofillusi0000rent}}

It was shot partly at the Johannisthal Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Herlth. It premiered at the Ufa-Palast am Zoo.