---
title: 'The Trousers (1927)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Hans Behrendt'
released: '1927-08-20'
runtime_minutes: 79
genres:
  - 'Comedy'
countries:
  - 'Germany'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-trousers-1927'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0018013/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Trousers (1927)

1927 · 79 min · Comedy · Germany

Original title: Die Hose

## Synopsis

The Trousers is a 1927 German silent comedy film directed by Hans Behrendt and starring Werner Krauss, Jenny Jugo and Rudolf Forster. It was based on a play by Carl Sternheim. Art direction was by Heinrich Richter and Franz Schroedter. The film is notable for the performance of Veit Harlan, later the director who made the controversial antisemitic Jew Suss, as a Jewish barber in a film made by a director who later died in the holocaust.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Hans Behrendt](https://cinepixo.com/people/hans-behrendt)
- **Screenplay:** [Carl Sternheim](https://cinepixo.com/people/carl-sternheim), [Franz Schulz](https://cinepixo.com/people/franz-schulz)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Willy Schmidt-Gentner](https://cinepixo.com/people/willy-schmidt-gentner)
- **Director of Photography:** [Carl Drews](https://cinepixo.com/people/carl-drews)

## Cast

- [Werner Krauss](https://cinepixo.com/people/werner-krauss)
- [Olga Limburg](https://cinepixo.com/people/olga-limburg)
- [Veit Harlan](https://cinepixo.com/people/veit-harlan)
- [Jenny Jugo](https://cinepixo.com/people/jenny-jugo)
- [Rudolf Forster](https://cinepixo.com/people/rudolf-forster)

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