Little Man, What Now? (1933 film)
Little Man,
What Now? is a 1933 German drama film directed by Fritz Wendhausen and starring Hermann Thimig, Hertha Thiele and Viktor de Kowa.
It is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Hans Fallada.
The original concept for the film was to take a naturalistic approach, the same way the novel did, with Kurt Weill composing the music.
Fallada had already remarked in 1932, after falling out with the producers and script writers, that the film had little to do with his novel, and that the script writers" would take a different approach," which they did.
The Nazi Film Review Office insisted on extensive cuts, including all scenes featuring the Comedian Harmonists.
The film's sets were designed by the art directors Willy Schiller and Otto Guelstorff.
Location shooting took place around Swinemünde.
It was well received by contemporary critics, many of whom considered it the best German film of 1933.
A separate American film adaptation of Fallada's novel," Little Man, What Now?", was released in 1934.
Donald Macardle
Donald Macardle was an Irish film and stage actor and writer.
He also directed the 1933 film" The King's Cup".
Trouble for Nothing
Trouble for Nothing is a 1916 British silent comedy film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Guy Newall, Hayford Hobbs and Jeff Barlow.
Little Man (Cheyenne Arrow Keeper)
Little Man was the son of Stone Forehead's sister and thus the cousin of Black Hairy Dog.
At the latter's death, circa. 1883, Little Man succeeded him as Keeper.
His father Turtle Following His Wife and his mother Running Face along with his brother White Beaver.
Like his family of the arrows he too possessed Spirit Lodge power to an unusual degree.
Little Man, Keeper of the Arrows reigned during a time when the Cheyenne was in build.
He was considered a traditionalist, and opposed the Indian Agent on a regular basis.
In 1901, the agent threatened to cut off rations if Little Man did not send the children to the Indian schools.
In 1914, he attempted to turn the Keeper's responsibility over to Old Crow.
The transfer was refused by the Chiefs, the Arrow priest and the leaders of the military societies.
They held fast to Sweet Medicine's rule that the Arrow Keeper must be Tsistsistas, but on request Little Man permitted peyote to be placed in the Sacred Arrow Bundle, soon died in 1917.
Thus silencing decades of loyalty, generations of guardianship and centuries of keepers of his royal bloodline.
Guardians and Priests of the Arrows soon shifted to a new Keeper, but an unlikely era.
Little Man's sons to young to take leadership, soon taken away by the white man.
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff( 10 March 1788 – 26 November 1857) was a Prussian poet, novelist, playwright, literary critic, translator, and anthologist.
Eichendorff was one of the major writers and critics of Romanticism.
Ever since their publication and up to the present day, some of his works have been very popular in Germany.
Eichendorff first became famous for his 1826 novella" Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts"( freely translated:" Memoirs of a Good- for- Nothing") and his poems.
The" Memoirs of a Good- for- Nothing" is a typical Romantic novella whose main themes are wanderlust and love.
The protagonist, the son of a miller, rejects his father's trade and becomes a gardener at a Viennese palace where he subsequently falls in love with the local duke's daughter.
As, with his lowly status, she is unattainable for him, he escapes to Italy- only to return and learn that she is the duke's adopted daughter, and thus within his social reach.
With its combination of dream world and realism," Memoirs of a Good- for- Nothing" is considered to be a high point of Romantic fiction.
One critic stated that Eichendorff's" Good- for- Nothing" is the" personification of love of nature and an obsession with hiking."
Thomas Mann called Eichendorff's" Good- for- Nothing" a combination of" the purity of the folk song and the fairy tale."
Many of Eichendorff's poems were first published as integral parts of his novellas and stories, where they are often performed in song by one of the protagonists.
The novella" Good- for- Nothing" alone contains 54 poems.
Hans Fallada
Hans Fallada( born Rudolf Wilhelm Friedrich Ditzen; 21 July 18935 February 1947) was a German writer of the first half of the 20th century.
Some of his better known novels include" Little Man, What Now?"( 1932) and" Every Man Dies Alone"( 1947).
His works belong predominantly to the New Objectivity literary style, a style associated with an emotionless reportage approach, with precision of detail, and a veneration for' the fact'.
Fallada's pseudonym derives from a combination of characters found in the Grimm's Fairy Tales:
The titular protagonist of" Hans in Luck"( KHM 83), and Falada the magical talking horse in" The Goose Girl".
Little Man, What Now? (1934 film)
Little Man,
What Now? is a 1934 pre-Code American drama film directed by Frank Borzage and starring Margaret Sullavan.
It is based on the novel of the same name by Hans Fallada.
The novel had been turned into a German film the previous year.
Maurice Elvey
Maurice Elvey( 11 November 1887 – 28 August 1967) was the most prolific film director in British history.
He directed nearly 200 films between 1913 and 1957.
During the silent film era he directed as many as twenty films per year.
He also produced more than fifty films- his own as well as films directed by others.
Something for Nothing (upcoming film)
Something for Nothing is an unreleased Russian film based on a story of the same name by Robert Sheckley.
Fritz Wendhausen
Fritz Wendhausen( 7 August 1890, Wendhausen – 5 January 1962, Königstein im Taunus) was a German actor, screenwriter and film director.
He is also credited as Frederick Wendhausen and F.R. Wendhausen.
In 1938 he emigrated to Britain from Nazi Germany.

Question: Are both directors of films Little Man, What Now? (1933 Film) and Trouble For Nothing from the same country?
Answer: no