
The lives of Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957), on the screen and behind the curtain. The joy and the sadness, the success and the failure. The story of one of the best comic duos of all time: a lesson on how to make people laugh.
Cast

Stan Laurel
Self (archive footage)

Oliver Hardy
Self (archive footage)

Frank Glaubrecht
Narrator

Booth Colman
Self

Chuck McCann
Self

Jerry Lewis
Self (archive footage)

Marcel Marceau
Self (archive footage)

Hal Roach
Self (archive footage)

Ingo Appelt
Self
Bart Williams
Self
Irv Hyatt
Self
Jamie McKenna
Self

Jean Darling
Self

Jim MacGeorge
Self
Lois Laurel
Self
Mabel Radcliffe
Self
Mark Greenhow
Self

Martin Schneider
Self
Michael Ehret
Self
René Riva
Self
Richard W. Bann
Self
Stan Taffel
Self

Sylvette Baudrot
Self
Tom Vandenberg
Self
Tyler St. Mark
Self
Valérie Bochenek
Self
Virginia Lucille Jones
Self
Wolfgang Günther
Self

Buster Keaton
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Michael Habeck
Self
Crew
Andreas Baum
Director, Writer, Producer
Stephan Thoene
Editor, Director of Photography, Cinematography
Philip Bienmüller
Director of Photography, Cinematography
Milka Pavlicevic
Producer
Stephan Höfler
Sound Mixer
Albert Warth
Sound
Sascha Gräser
Sound
Jan Hommes
Sound
Jannis Rost
Sound

Ewing Miles Brown
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