A Hoax

{{short description|1936 film}} {{use dmy dates|date=January 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = A Hoax | image = File:A Hoax (1936 film).jpg | caption = | director = [[E. W. Emo]] | producer = | writer = {{ubl|[[Hans Fritz Köllner]]|[[Hanns Sassmann]]}} | narrator = | starring = {{ubl|[[Paul Hörbiger]]|[[Trude Marlen]]|[[Hans Moser (actor)|Hans Moser]]}} | music = [[Viktor Corzilius]] | cinematography = [[Bruno Mondi]] | editing = [[Wolfgang Wehrum]] | studio = Algefa Film | distributor = [[Tobis Film|Europa Film]] | released = {{film date|1936|9|4|df=y}} | runtime = | country = Germany | language = German | budget = | gross =

}} '''''A Hoax''''' ({{langx|de|'''Schabernack'''}}) is a 1936 German [[comedy film]] directed by [[E. W. Emo]] and starring [[Paul Hörbiger]], [[Trude Marlen]], and [[Hans Moser (actor)|Hans Moser]].{{sfn|Bock|Bergfelder|p=327}} It was shot at the [[National Studios]] in [[Berlin]]. The film's sets were designed by [[Otto Erdmann (art director)|Otto Erdmann]] and [[Hans Sohnle]].<ref>Klaus p.177</ref>

==Synopsis== A [[hotel]] is financially struggling until the nearby [[lunatic asylum]] is forced to close following a fire and all the patients are relocated to the hotel. Confusion arises when a newly arrived hotel guest is mistaken for a lunatic.

==Main cast== {{cast listing| * [[Paul Hörbiger]] as Peter Burgstaller, Oberkellner * [[Trude Marlen]] as Eva Hügler, Inhaberin Hotel 'Kronprinz' * [[Hans Moser (actor)|Hans Moser]] as Wandl, Hausknecht 'Hotel Kronprinz' * [[Heinz Salfner]] as Mr. Vanderbilt * [[Max Gülstorff]] as Julius Hügler sen., Präsident Hügler AG. * [[Hans Richter (actor)|Hans Richter]] as Manz, Liftboy 'Hotel Kronprinz' * {{ill|Karl Ludwig Schreiber|de}} as Fred Bruckmann * [[Paul Henckels]] as Professor Marius, Besitzer Sanatorium 'Seelenruhe' * [[Erika von Schaper]] * [[Hans Rudolf Waldburg]] * [[Josef Reithofer]] * {{ill|Egon Brosig|de||es}} }}

== References == {{reflist}}

== Bibliography == * {{cite book | ref = {{sfnref|Bock|Bergfelder}} | editor-first1 = Hans-Michael | editor-last1 = Bock | editor-link1 = Hans-Michael Bock | editor-first2 = Tim | editor-last2 = Bergfelder | title = The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema | publisher = Berghahn Books | year = 2009 | location = New York | isbn = 978-1-57181-655-9 }} * Klaus, Ulrich J. ''Deutsche Tonfilme: Jahrgang 1936''. Klaus-Archiv, 1988.

== External links == * {{IMDb title|0028222}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hoax, A}} [[Category:1936 films]] [[Category:1936 comedy films]] [[Category:Films of Nazi Germany]] [[Category:German comedy films]] [[Category:1936 German-language films]] [[Category:Films directed by E. W. Emo]] [[Category:German black-and-white films]] [[Category:Tobis Film films]] [[Category:1936 German films]] [[Category:German-language comedy films]]