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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]

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
Country	Germany
Languages	Silent German intertitles

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

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

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