Das häßliche Mädchen
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Das häßliche Mädchen ("The Ugly Girl", sometimes translated as "The Ugly Duckling") is a German comedy film made in early 1933, during the transition from the Weimar Republic to Nazi Germany, and premièred in September that year. It was the first or second film directed by Hermann Kosterlitz, who left Germany before the film was completed and later worked in the United States under the name Henry Koster, and the last German film in which Dolly Haas appeared; she also later emigrated to the US. A Nazi-led riot broke out at the première to protest the male lead, Max Hansen, who was supposedly "too Jewish." The film's representation of the "ugly girl" as an outsider has been described as a metaphorical way to explore the outsider existence of Jews.
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Directed by | Hermann Kosterlitz (Henry Koster) (uncredited) |
Screenplay by | Felix Joachimson (Felix Jackson) Hermann Kosterlitz (uncredited) |
Starring | Dolly Haas Max Hansen Otto Wallburg |
Production company | Avanti-Tonfilm GmbH |
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Running time | 74 minutes |
Country | Nazi Germany |
Language | German |