One Hour of Happiness

1931 · Movie · 60 min. · Germany

Drama Musical

One Hour of Happiness" is the official title, but "One Hour of Weirdness" would be equally as good for this unclassifiable film. It opens with a sequence in which we see one of the actors (Hans Reimann) paying a visit to the editing room of director Dieterle, and Dieterle demonstrates to him - and us - the art of editing the as yet unfinished film that we're going to see. Afterwards, Reimann sneaks into the screening room where we see unrelated fragments - as if they were a trailer - of the film which is to follow. And then finally we are in the film itself, which is about two assemblers preparing a travel exhibition in a department store in the night hours and who invite a newspaper girl to spend the night with them in the store, which is disliked by the nightwatchman who believes that the girl might be a thief.

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Evelyn Holt · William Dieterle · Harald Paulsen · Hans Reimann · Dolly Haas · Julius Brandt