''Miss Piccolo'' (German: ''Fräulein Piccolo'') is a 1914 German silent

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directed by

Franz Hofer Franz Hofer (November 27, 1902 – February 18, 1975) was an Austrian Nazi politician. He was Gauleiter (party leader) in Tyrol and Vorarlberg and, during the Third Reich, the most powerful figure in the region. Hofer dealt directly with A ...

and starring Dorrit Weixler,

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and

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.Bock & Bergfelder p.240 The film's sets were designed by the

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Fritz Kraenke Fritz Kraenke (1890–1947) was a German art director.Bleckman p.456 He worked on the sets of more than thirty films during the silent era. Selected filmography * '' Miss Piccolo'' (1914) * '' The Yellow Death'' (1920) * '' The Skull of Pharaoh's ...

Cast

* Dorrit Weixler as Lo - Fräulein Piccolo *

as Pinkeles * Franz Schwaiger as Leutnant Clairon *

as Röschen * Max Lehmann as Los Vater *

Karl Harbacher Karl Harbacher (1879–1943) was an Austrian actor. Selected filmography * '' Miss Piccolo'' (1914) * '' No Sin on the Alpine Pastures'' (1915) * '' Fanny Elssler'' (1920) * '' Das blaue Duell'' (1920) * ''The Adventuress of Monte Carlo'' (1921) ...

as Kellner *

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as Los Mutter * Martin Wolff * Grete Weixler

References

Bibliography

* Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009.

External links

* 1914 films 1914 comedy films Silent German comedy films Films of the German Empire German silent feature films Films directed by Franz Hofer German black-and-white films Films set in hotels Cross-dressing in German films 1910s German films 1910s German-language films German-language comedy films {{1910s-Germany-film-stub