The Great Longing (1930)

Comedy

During lunch break at the movie studio, the extras rush to the canteen Hans Adalbert Schlettow, Maria Paudler and Luis Trenker are chatting. Eva von Loe a beautiful young extra rushes past; she is looking for her fiancé, Paul Wessel, who is also an extra. She has to return to the set where the famous director Regisseur Hall is shooting a scen. He is dissatisfied with his star, Carla Marventa, who is wrong for the scene he must photograph. Hall notices Eva, but laughs at her desire to replace Marventa. At that moment Conrad Veidt comes on the scene and assumes that Eva is the star.

Cast

Eva von Loe
Camilla Horn
Regisseur Hall
Theodor Loos
Fridericus Rex
Karl Platen
Cornelius
F Ferdinand Bonn
Filmdirector
Walter Steinbeck
Herself
Betty Amann
Herself
Elga Brink
Herself
Lil Dagover
Herself
Liane Haid
Herself
Anny Ondra
Herself
Maria Paudler
Herself
Adele Sandrock
Regieassistent Mopp
Paul Kemp
Herself
W Wilhelmine Sandrock
Herself
Charlotte Susa
Herself
Olga Tschechowa
Herself
Camilla von Hollay
Himself
Gustav Diessl
Himself
Paul Heidemann
Himself
Walter Janssen
Himself
Fritz Kortner
Himself
Francis Lederer
Himself
Harry Liedtke
Aufnahmeleiter Klieht
Paul Henckels
Himself
Theo Lingen
Himself
Károly Huszár
Himself
Fritz Rasp
Himself
Walter Rilla
Himself
Hans Adalbert Schlettow
Himself,
Luis Trenker
Himself
Jack Trevor
Himself
Conrad Veidt
Himself
Ernö Verebes
Herself
María Corda
sie selbst
Lil Dagover
Herself
Jenny Jugo
Himself
Karel Lamač
Himself
Hans H. Zerlett
Paul Wessel
Harry Frank
Carla Marventa
Berthe Ostyn
Mary
I Irma Godau
Garderobiere
Anna Müller-Lincke
Regisseur Berg
E Erwin van Roy

Crew

Director
Steve Sekely
Writer
Emeric Pressburger
Writer
Steve Sekely
Writer
Hans H. Zerlett
Music
Paul Dessau
Music
Friedrich Hollaender
Director of Photography
M Mutz Greenbaum
Art Direction
O Otto Erdmann
Art Direction
H Hans Sohnle
Assistant Director
László Benedek
Costume Design
T Tihamer Varady