One Hour of Happiness

One Hour of Happiness
One Hour of Happiness
Directed by	William Dieterle
Written by	William Dieterle; Karl Peter Gillmann;
Produced by	Felix Pfitzner
Starring	William Dieterle; Evelyn Holt; Harald Paulsen;
Cinematography	Wilhelm Ballasz; Charles J. Stumar;
Edited by	Carl Otto Bartning
Music by	Jean Gilbert
Production; company	Cicero Film
Distributed by	Deutsche Universal-Film
Release date	16 March 1931;
Running time	82 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

One Hour of Happiness (German: Eine Stunde Glück) is a 1931 German drama film directed by William Dieterle and starring Dieterle, Evelyn Holt, and Harald Paulsen.^[1]

It was released by the German branch of Universal Pictures.

Synopsis

Two workers in a department store see an attractive but poverty-stricken newspaper seller looking through the window at the goods inside. As part of a game they decide to give her gifts of items in the shop, but she doesn't realize that they are only pretending.

Cast

Evelyn Holt as Das Mädel
William Dieterle as Eddy
Harald Paulsen as Tommy
Hans Reimann as Der Nachtwächter
Dolly Haas as Die Puppe
Julius Brandt as Der Portier

References

^ Bock & Bergfelder p. 178

Bibliography

Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9.