--- title: 'His Greatest Bluff (1927)' type: 'film' director: 'Harry Piel' released: '1927-01-01' runtime_minutes: 108 genres: - 'Comedy' countries: - 'Weimar Republic' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/his-greatest-bluff-1927' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0018372/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # His Greatest Bluff (1927) 1927 · 108 min · Comedy · Weimar Republic ## Synopsis His Greatest Bluff is a 1927 German silent comedy film directed by Henrik Galeen and Harry Piel and starring Piel, Toni Tetzlaff and Lotte Lorring. Its title is sometimes translated as His Biggest Bluff. Today, the film is best known for the early role it offered to Marlene Dietrich who was only cast after great effort by her agents. The film was shot at the Grunewald Studios, located in Western Berlin, during January and February 1927. It premiered on 12 May 1927 at the Alhambra-Palast in Berlin. ## Credits - **Director:** [Harry Piel](https://cinepixo.com/people/harry-piel), [Henrik Galeen](https://cinepixo.com/people/henrik-galeen) - **Screenplay:** [Henrik Galeen](https://cinepixo.com/people/henrik-galeen) - **Original Music Composer:** [Hans May](https://cinepixo.com/people/hans-may) - **Producer:** [Heinrich Nebenzahl](https://cinepixo.com/people/heinrich-nebenzahl) - **Director of Photography:** [Georg Muschner](https://cinepixo.com/people/georg-muschner) ## Cast - [Fritz Greiner](https://cinepixo.com/people/fritz-greiner) - [Harry Piel](https://cinepixo.com/people/harry-piel) - [Eugen Burg](https://cinepixo.com/people/eugen-burg) - [Kurt Gerron](https://cinepixo.com/people/kurt-gerron) - [Marlene Dietrich](https://cinepixo.com/people/marlene-dietrich) - [Albert Paulig](https://cinepixo.com/people/albert-paulig) - [Charly Berger](https://cinepixo.com/people/charly-berger) - [Lotte Lorring](https://cinepixo.com/people/lotte-lorring) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/his-greatest-bluff-1927 Film facts: Wikidata (Q15221752); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.