Folly of Love

{{short description|1928 film}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = Folly of Love | image =

| caption = | director = [[Robert Wiene]] | writer = [[Alexander Castell]] (novel) [[Max Glass]] | producer = Max Glass | starring = [[Maria Jacobini]] [[Jack Trevor]] [[Betty Astor]] [[Angelo Ferrari]] | narrator = | cinematography = [[Giovanni Vitrotti]] | editing = | music = [[Giuseppe Becce]] | studio = [[Max Glass Film]] | distributor = [[Terra Film]] | released = {{Film date|1928|11|14|df=yes}} | runtime = | country = Germany | language = [[Silent film|Silent]] [[German language|German]] intertitles | budget = | gross = }} '''''Folly of Love''''' (German: '''''Unfug der Liebe''''') is a 1928 [[Cinema of Germany|German]] [[silent film|silent]] [[comedy film]] directed by [[Robert Wiene]] and starring [[Maria Jacobini]], [[Jack Trevor]] and [[Betty Astor]]. While several of Wiene's previous films had met with mixed responses, ''Folly of Love'' was universally praised by critics.<ref>Jung & Schatzberg p.148-149</ref> The film was made at the [[Marienfelde Studios]] of [[Terra Film]]. It was Wiene's last silent film. His next work was the 1930 [[sound film]] ''[[The Other (1930 film)|The Other]]''.

==Cast== * [[Maria Jacobini]] * [[Jack Trevor]] * [[Betty Astor]] * [[Angelo Ferrari]] * [[Ferry Silka]] * [[Oreste Bilancia]] * [[Willi Forst]] * [[Reza Sarijlou]] * [[Dan Gillen]]

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Bibliography== * Jung, Uli & Schatzberg, Walter. ''Beyond Caligari: The Films of Robert Wiene''. Berghahn Books, 1999.

==External links== *{{IMDb title|0227723}}

[[Category:Films of the Weimar Republic]] [[Category:1928 films]] [[Category:German silent feature films]] [[Category:Films directed by Robert Wiene]] [[Category:Films based on Swiss novels]] [[Category:1928 comedy films]] [[Category:Terra Film films]] [[Category:German black-and-white films]] [[Category:German silent comedy films]] [[Category:Films shot at Terra Studios]] [[Category:1928 German films]] [[Category:1928 German-language films]] [[Category:Films scored by Giuseppe Becce]] [[Category:German-language comedy films]]