---
title: 'Such Great Foolishness (1937)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Carl Froelich'
released: '1937-04-30'
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'Germany'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/such-great-foolishness-1937'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028919/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Such Great Foolishness (1937)

1937 · Drama · Germany

Original title: Die ganz großen Torheiten

## Synopsis

Such Great Foolishness is a 1937 German drama film directed by Carl Froelich and starring Paula Wessely, Rudolf Forster and Hilde Wagener. The film was set in Vienna, unusually for a German film of the time which had increasingly cut back on films set in Austria since the Nazi takeover of 1933. The film was based on a novel by Marianne von Angern.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Carl Froelich](https://cinepixo.com/people/carl-froelich)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Ralph Benatzky](https://cinepixo.com/people/ralph-benatzky)
- **Director of Photography:** [Franz Planer](https://cinepixo.com/people/franz-planer)
- **Editor:** [Gustav Lohse](https://cinepixo.com/people/gustav-lohse)

## Cast

- [Angelo Ferrari](https://cinepixo.com/people/angelo-ferrari)
- [Kurt Meisel](https://cinepixo.com/people/kurt-meisel)
- [Rudolf Forster](https://cinepixo.com/people/rudolf-forster)
- [Gretl Theimer](https://cinepixo.com/people/gretl-theimer)
- [Bruno Hübner](https://cinepixo.com/people/bruno-hubner)
- [Klaus Pohl](https://cinepixo.com/people/klaus-pohl-2)
- [Hans Olden](https://cinepixo.com/people/hans-olden)
- [Gustav Waldau](https://cinepixo.com/people/gustav-waldau)
- [Margarete Schön](https://cinepixo.com/people/margarete-schon)
- [Julius Brandt](https://cinepixo.com/people/julius-brandt)
- [Karl Hellmer](https://cinepixo.com/people/karl-hellmer)
- [Paula Wessely](https://cinepixo.com/people/paula-wessely)
- [Karl Harbacher](https://cinepixo.com/people/karl-harbacher)
- [Hedwig Bleibtreu](https://cinepixo.com/people/hedwig-bleibtreu)
- [Hans Henninger](https://cinepixo.com/people/hans-henninger)

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