''Holzapfel Knows Everything'' () is a 1932 German

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directed by

Victor Janson Victor Arthur Eduard Janson (; 25 September 1884 – 29 June 1960) was a German stage and film actor and film director of Latvian ethnicity. Selected filmography Actor * '' Your Dearest Enemy'' (1916) * '' When Four Do the Same'' (1917) * ''Carm ...

and starring

Felix Bressart Felix Bressart (March 2, 1895 – March 17, 1949) was a German-born actor of stage and screen whose career spanned both Europe and Hollywood. Early days Bressart (pronounced "BRESS-ert") was born in Eydtkuhnen, East Prussia, Germany (now in N ...

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and Gretl Theimer.Bock & Bergfelder p. 63 It was shot at the

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Studios in

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. The film's sets were designed by the

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Main cast

as Johannes Georg Holzapfel *

as Stephan Berregi * Gretl Theimer as Eva Stein *

Theodor Loos Theodor August Konrad Loos (18 May 1883 – 27 June 1954) was a German actor. The son of a watchmaker and instruments manufacturer, he left secondary school prematurely and worked for three years at an export firm for music instruments in Leipz ...

as Konsul van Doeren * Dieterle Henkels as Teddy Stein, ein Junge *

Anton Pointner Anton Pointner (8 December 1894 in Salzburg – 8 September 1949 in Hintersee) was an Austrian stage and film actor. Pointner's career began on the stages of Austria and he performed in both silent and sound films in his native Austria, as w ...

as Oskar *

Julius Falkenstein Julius Falkenstein (25 February 1879 – 9 December 1933) was a German stage and film actor of the silent era. He appeared in more than 180 films between 1914 and 1933. Falkenstein was Jewish, but secured a special permit to continue making ...

as Jule *

John Mylong John Mylong (born Adolf Heinrich Münz; September 27, 1892 – September 8, 1975), also known as Jack Mylong-Münz, was an Austrian actor, who later settled in the United States. Biography Mylong was born Adolf Heinrich Münz, to Jewish paren ...

as Fritz * Paul Morgan as Emil * Robert Näestelberger as Jakob * Josef Bunzl as Heinrich * Nico Turoff as Hans *

Henry Bender Henry Bender (born Harry Bandheimer; 1867–1933) was a German stage and film actor.Chandler p. 272 He appeared in more than a hundred films during his career. Selected filmography * ''The Devil'' (1918) * '' Madeleine'' (1919) * ''Whitechapel'' ...

as Otto, Kneipenwirt *

Gertrud de Lalsky Gertrud de Lalsky (27 January 1878 in Danzig – 16 September 1958 in West Berlin) was a German actress. Selected filmography * ''Catherine the Great'' (1920) * ''Hypnosis'' (1920) * ''Fridericus Rex'' (1922) * '' The Island of Tears'' (1923) * ...

as Frau von Bloemen *

Eugen Burg Eugen Burg (6 January 1871 – 17 April 1944) was a German actor. His daughter was Hansi Burg. Burg was a close friend of the actor Hans Albers. Burg was born Eugen Hirschburg into a Jewish family, but later converted to Protestantism. He was ba ...

as Polizeikommissar

References

Bibliography

* Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009.

External links

* 1932 comedy films German comedy films 1932 films Films of the Weimar Republic 1930s German-language films Films directed by Victor Janson German black-and-white films Films scored by Hans J. Salter 1930s German films {{1930s-Germany-comedy-film-stub