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Das hliche Mdchen The Ugly Girl, sometimes translated The Ugly Duckling is a German comedy film made in early 1933, during the transition from the Weimar Republic to Nazi Germany, and premired 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 riot broke out at the premire to protest the male lead, Max Hansen, who was supposedly too Jewish. The films representation of the ugly girl as outsider has been described as a metaphorical way to explore the outsider existence of Jews.
Hermann Kosterlitz both directed and cowrote the script. This was his first or second time directing. Kosterlitz, who was Jewish, had left Germany months before the premiere, without seeing the final cut. His name was removed from the credits and replaced by an Aryan pseudonym, Hasse Preis. He went to Paris in April, then via Budapest and Vienna to Hollywood in 1936. The other author, Felix Joachimson, would go first to Austria and then also to the US, where he was a successful scriptwriter and producer under the name of Felix Jackson.The male lead, Max Hansen, was reputed to be partJewish and the previous year had performed a comic song implying that Hitler was homosexual at the opening, in a riot orchestrated by the Nazis, members of the audience attacked him as too Jewish, shouting We want German movies We want German actors, and he was pelted with tomatoes. Rotten eggs were thrown at the screen. In the words of the review in FilmKurier ........
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