The Great Longing

The Great Longing

100 mins | Comedy | Aug. 24, 1930

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.

The Great Longing

100 mins | Comedy | Aug. 24, 1930

The Great Longing
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.
Producers Cicero Film
Original title Die große Sehnsucht
Directors László Benedek, Steve Sekely
Writers Hans H. Zerlett, Steve Sekely, Emeric Pressburger

Cast

Camilla Horn

as Eva von Loe

Theodor Loos

as Regisseur Hall

Paul Kemp

as Regieassistent Mopp

Paul Henckels

as Aufnahmeleiter Klieht

Lil Dagover

as sie selbst / Herself

Harry Frank

as Paul Wessel

Berthe Ostyn

as Carla Marventa

Irma Godau

as Mary

Anna Müller-Lincke

as Garderobiere

Erwin van Roy

as Regisseur Berg

Karl Platen

as Fridericus Rex

Ferdinand Bonn

as Cornelius

Walter Steinbeck

as Filmdirector

Betty Amann

as Herself

Elga Brink

as Herself

Liane Haid

as Herself

Anny Ondra

as Herself

Maria Paudler

as Herself

Adele Sandrock

as Herself

Wilhelmine Sandrock

as Herself

Charlotte Susa

as Herself

Olga Tschechowa

as Herself

Camilla von Hollay

as Herself

Gustav Diessl

as Himself

Paul Heidemann

as Himself

Walter Janssen

as Himself

Fritz Kortner

as Himself

Francis Lederer

as Himself

Harry Liedtke

as Himself

Theo Lingen

as Himself

Károly Huszár

as Himself

Fritz Rasp

as Himself

Walter Rilla

as Himself

Luis Trenker

as Himself,

Jack Trevor

as Himself

Conrad Veidt

as Himself

Ernö Verebes

as Himself

María Corda

as Herself

Jenny Jugo

as Herself

Karel Lamač

as Himself

Hans H. Zerlett

as Himself