---
title: 'Trouble Backstairs (1935)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Veit Harlan'
released: '1935-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 83
genres:
  - 'Comedy'
countries:
  - 'Nazi Germany'
  - 'Germany'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/trouble-backstairs-1935'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026581/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Trouble Backstairs (1935)

1935 · 83 min · Comedy · Nazi Germany, Germany

Original title: Krach im Hinterhaus

## Synopsis

Trouble Backstairs is a 1935 German romantic comedy film directed by Veit Harlan and starring Henny Porten, Else Elster and Rotraut Richter. It marked the directoral debut of Harlan, who had previously worked as an actor, and quickly developed as a leading director of Nazi Germany. It was based on a play by Maximilian Böttcher, and was remade in 1949.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Veit Harlan](https://cinepixo.com/people/veit-harlan)
- **Screenplay:** [Maximilian Böttcher](https://cinepixo.com/people/maximilian-bottcher)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Will Meisel](https://cinepixo.com/people/will-meisel)
- **Director of Photography:** [Bruno Mondi](https://cinepixo.com/people/bruno-mondi)
- **Editor:** [Ludolf Grisebach](https://cinepixo.com/people/ludolf-grisebach)

## Cast

- [Hanni Weisse](https://cinepixo.com/people/hanni-weisse)
- [Reinhold Bernt](https://cinepixo.com/people/reinhold-bernt)
- [Henny Porten](https://cinepixo.com/people/henny-porten)
- [Gaston Briese](https://cinepixo.com/people/gaston-briese)
- [Hilde Sessak](https://cinepixo.com/people/hilde-sessak)
- [Else Elster](https://cinepixo.com/people/else-elster)
- [Paul Mederow](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-mederow)
- [Helmut Weiss](https://cinepixo.com/people/helmut-weiss)
- [Erich Kestin](https://cinepixo.com/people/erich-kestin)
- [Eduard von Winterstein](https://cinepixo.com/people/eduard-von-winterstein)
- [Gerhard Bienert](https://cinepixo.com/people/gerhard-bienert)
- [Rotraut Richter](https://cinepixo.com/people/rotraut-richter)
- [Ilse Fürstenberg](https://cinepixo.com/people/ilse-furstenberg)

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