Trouble with Jolanthe
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{{Infobox film
|name = Trouble with Jolanthe
|image = Trouble with Jolanthe.jpg
|caption = German film poster
|native_name = {{Infobox name module|de|Der Wetterwart}}
|director = Carl Froelich
|producer = Carl Froelich
|writer = August Hinrichs (play)
Robert A. Stemmle
Walter Supper
|starring = Wilhelm P. Krüger
Marianne Hoppe
Olaf Bach
|music = Hanson Milde-Meissner
|cinematography = Reimar Kuntze
|editing = Gustav Lohse
|studio = Carl Froelich-Film
|distributor =Europa-Filmverleih
|released = {{Film date|1934|8|18|df=yes}}
|runtime = 99 minutes
|country = Germany
|language = German
}}
Trouble with Jolanthe (German: Krach um Jolanthe) is a 1934 German romantic comedy film directed by Carl Froelich and starring Wilhelm P. Krüger, Marianne Hoppe and Olaf Bach.Williams, Alan. Film and Nationalism. Rutgers University Press, 2002. p. 150. It was remade in 1955 as The Happy Village. A separate Swedish adaptation Jolanta the Elusive Pig had been released in 1945.
The film's sets were designed by the art director Franz Schroedter.
The film adapts "August Hinrichs's folk-play Krach um Jolanthe (The Row about Yolanthe), also known in a Low German version as Swienskomödie (Jolanthe was a pig)."{{Cite book |last=Burgess |first=Gordon J. A. |url=https://www.google.pt/books/edition/The_Life_and_Works_of_Wolfgang_Borchert/7IdnvHgwaLwC?hl=fr&gbpv=1&dq=August+Hinrichs+Trouble+with+Jolanthe&pg=PA52&printsec=frontcover |title=The Life and Works of Wolfgang Borchert |date=2003 |publisher=Camden House |isbn=978-1-57113-270-3 |language=en}} The play is remembered as one of Hitler's favourite.{{Cite book |last=Nicolella |first=Henry |url=https://www.google.pt/books/edition/Frank_Wisbar/YzhCDwAAQBAJ?hl=fr&gbpv=1&dq=August+Hinrichs+Trouble+with+Jolanthe&pg=PA100&printsec=frontcover |title=Frank Wisbar: The Director of Ferryman Maria, from Germany to America and Back |date=2018-01-12 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-2976-6 |language=en}}
Cast
{{Cast listing|
- Wilhelm P. Krüger as Krischan Lampken, farmer
- Marianne Hoppe as Anna, daughter
- Olaf Bach as Müller Bunjes
- Marieluise Claudius as Sophie, sister
- Fritz Hoopts as Hinnerk, servant
- Carsta Löck as Stine, maid
- Albert Lieven as Wesemeier, the new teacher
- Karl Dannemann as Rupf, the new gendarme
- Willi Schur as Egon Mahnke, bailiff
- Fita Benkhoff as Erna Klüfkorn, bride
- Max Eckard as farmer's friend #1
- Hugo Froelich as Oncken, farmer
- Richard Handwerk as Borchers, farmer
- Willi Parshen as farmer's friend #3
- Jaspar von Oertzen as farmer's friend #2
}}
See also
- Jolanta the Elusive Pig (1945)
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- {{IMDb title|0025355}}
{{Carl Froelich}}
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Category:Films of Nazi Germany
Category:German romantic comedy films
Category:1934 romantic comedy films
Category:Films directed by Carl Froelich
Category:German films based on plays
Category:German black-and-white films
Category:Films scored by Hanson Milde-Meissner
Category:1930s German-language films
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