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| LITTLE FRIEND |
| Title of the Film | LITTLE FRIEND |
| Alternative Titles | |
| English Titles | |
| Year of Release | 1934 |
| Country of Origin | UK |
| Language(s) | English |
| Run Time (in minutes) | 84 |
| Length (in meters) | 2333 |
| Colour | b/w |
| Genre | Drama |
| Based on/Source | Novel "Kleine Freundin" by Ernst Lothar |
| Production Companies | Gaumont-British Picture Corporation |
| Producer(s) | Michael Balcon, Robert Stevenson |
| Director | Berthold Viertel |
| Cast | Matheson Lang, Lydia Sherwood, Nova Pilbeam, Arthur Margetson, Fritz Kortner |
| Literature | Peter Witt: Lothar Mendes and Berthold Viertel talk about their latest films. Picturegoer Weekly, 7 April 1934 Hilde Heller: Atelierarbeit in London. Mein Film (Vienna), no. 436 (May 1934) Film Weekly, 24 August 1934 Times, 28 August 1934 Cinema Quarterly, Autumn 1934 (by Paul Rotha) Punch, 5 September 1934 Jewish Chronicle, 7 September 1934 Picturegoer Weekly, 15 September 1934 New York Times, 20 October 1934 Picturegoer Weekly, 3 November 1934 (Lionel Collier) Pariser Tageblatt, 8 February 1935 |
| Special notes | Screenplay by Margaret Kennedy, Christopher Isherwood and Berthold Viertel Director of photography: Gunther Krampf Art director: Alfred Junge Music: Ernst Toch "Berthold Viertel's direction is imaginative, and he has been particularly convincing and compelling in his treatment of the court scenes." (Lionel Collier) |