The Trousers (1927)

Original title

Die Hose

Directed by

Hans Behrendt

Genre

comedy film, silent film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 19m

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film is a silent comedy about a bourgeois man whose public embarrassment when his trousers fall down causes a scandal. Based on a play, it follows the social chaos that ensues in his household and neighborhood.

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What happens

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. 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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