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The Great Longing (1930)

Directed by Steve Sekely

Overview

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.

Length 100 minutes

Actors

Camilla Horn | Theodor Loos | Paul Kemp | Paul Henckels | Harry Frank | Berthe Ostyn | Irma Godau | Anna Müller-Lincke | Erwin van Roy | Karl Platen | Ferdinand Bonn | Walter Steinbeck | Betty Amann | Elga Brink | Lil Dagover | Liane Haid | Anny Ondra | Maria Paudler | Adele Sandrock | Wilhelmine Sandrock | Charlotte Susa | Olga Tschechowa | Camilla von Hollay | Gustav Diessl | Paul Heidemann | Walter Janssen | Fritz Kortner | Francis Lederer | Harry Liedtke | Theo Lingen | Charles Puffy | Fritz Rasp | Walter Rilla | Hans Adalbert Schlettow | Luis Trenker | Jack Trevor | Conrad Veidt | Ernö Verebes | María Corda | Jenny Jugo | Karel Lamač | Hans H. Zerlett