't Was één April is a 1936

1936 in film

The year 1936 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*May 29 - Fritz Lang's first Hollywood film Fury, starring Spencer Tracy and Bruce Cabot, is released.*November 6 - first Porky Pig animated cartoon...

 Dutch

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 film

Film

A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

 directed by Douglas Sirk

Douglas Sirk

Douglas Sirk was a Danish-German film director best known for his work in Hollywood melodramas in the 1950s.-Life and work:...

 and Jacques van Tol. It is a lost film

Lost film

A lost film is a feature film or short film that is no longer known to exist in studio archives, private collections or public archives such as the Library of Congress, where at least one copy of all American films are deposited and catalogued for copyright reasons...

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Plot

When Mister Vlasman gets promoted from baking bread to making macaroni, he and his wife want to enter high society. So friends try to pull an april fools prank, by faking the announcement of a rich baron. 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
  Cissy van Bennekom
  Cissy van Bennekom was a Dutch comedy actress. She was born in Haarlem in the Netherlands on July 11, 1911 and died of natural causes on March 1, 2005 in Amsterdam.-Filmography:...
  
  ... Vlasmans secretaresse
• Pau Dana ... Secretaresse

Background

The movie is a remake of the German film April, April! (1935), also directed by Douglas Sirk

Douglas Sirk

Douglas Sirk was a Danish-German film director best known for his work in Hollywood melodramas in the 1950s.-Life and work:...

. 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.