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't Was één April
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't Was één April Douglas Sirk and Jacques van Tol H.W. Litschke, Rudo Ritter 1936 03 27 y 78 minutes Netherlands Dutch
t Was één April is a 1936 Dutch film directed by Douglas Sirk and Jacques van Tol. It is a lost film.
Plot
When Mister Vlasman gets promoted from baking bread to making macaroni, he and his wife want to enter high society. They could not be happier when a wealthy baron offers to introduce them into the high class. What they don't realise is that this was all an April Fools' prank. Unfortunately for the pranksters, things get out of hand when a real baron visits the Vlasmans.
Cast
Jacques Van Bylevelt ... Heer Vlasman
Tilly Perin-Bouwmeester ... Vlasmans vrouw
Jopie Koopman ... Vlasmans dochter
Rob Milton ... Vlasmans dochters verloofde
Herman Tholen... Baron de Hoog van Vriesland
Johan Kaart ... Handelaar
Cissy Van Bennekom ... Vlasmans secretaresse
Pau Dana ... Secretaresse
Background
The movie is a remake of the German film April, April! (1935), also directed by Douglas Sirk.https://archive.today/20120530173453/http://www.filmtotaal.nl/module.php?section=nfdDetails&movieID=37&titel=was_%C3%A9%C3%A9n_april,_ Film Totaal In the German version the baron was a prince. Sirk never came to the Netherlands. All of his scenes were shot in Germany. Scenes in the Netherlands were directed by Jacques van Tol. No known copies of the film exist today.Internet Movie Database - Trivia
References
External links
0209863 't Was één April
Category:1936 films
Category:Dutch black-and-white films
Category:1930s Dutch films
Category:1936 drama films
Category:Dutch multilingual films
Category:Lost Dutch drama films
Category:1936 multilingual films
Category:1936 lost films
Category:1930s Dutch-language films
Category:Dutch-language drama films