''Trouble with Jolanthe'' (German: ''Krach um Jolanthe'') is a 1934 German
romantic comedy
Romantic comedy (also known as romcom or rom-com) is a sub-genre of comedy and Romance novel, romance fiction, focusing on lighthearted, humorous plot lines centered on romantic ideas, such as how true love is able to surmount all obstacles. Ro ...
film directed by
Carl Froelich
Carl August Hugo Froelich (5 September 1875 – 12 February 1953) was a German film pioneer and film director. He was born and died in Berlin.
Biography
Apparatus builder and cameraman
From 1903 Froelich was a colleague of Oskar Messter, one of ...
and starring
Wilhelm P. Krüger,
Marianne Hoppe and
Olaf Bach. It was remade in 1955 as ''
The Happy Village
''The Happy Village'' () is a 1955 West German comedy film directed by Rudolf Schündler and starring Hannelore Bollmann, Carl Hinrichs and Gerhard Riedmann.Williams p.150 It is a remake of the 1934 German film ''Trouble with Jolanthe''. It was s ...
''. A separate Swedish adaptation ''
Jolanta the Elusive Pig'' had been released in 1945.
The film's sets were designed by the
art director
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It is the charge of a sole art director to supe ...
Franz Schroedter
Franz Schroedter (9 May 1897 – 14 November 1968) was a German art director.Giesen p.212
Selected filmography
* '' The Black Count'' (1920)
* ''The Dance of Love and Happiness'' (1921)
* '' The New Paradise'' (1921)
* '' The Queen of Whitechapel ...
.
The film adapts "August Hinrichs's folk-play ''Krach um Jolanthe'' (The Row about Yolanthe), also known in a
Low German
Low German is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language variety, language spoken mainly in Northern Germany and the northeastern Netherlands. The dialect of Plautdietsch is also spoken in the Russian Mennonite diaspora worldwide. "Low" ...
version as ''Swienskomödie'' (Jolanthe was a pig)." The play is remembered as one of
Hitler's favourite.
Cast
See also
*''
Jolanta the Elusive Pig'' (1945)
References
External links
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Films of Nazi Germany
German romantic comedy films
1934 romantic comedy films
Films directed by Carl Froelich
German films based on plays
German black-and-white films
1930s German films
Films scored by Hanson Milde-Meissner
1930s German-language films
German-language romantic comedy films
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