When the Cock Crows (German: Wenn der Hahn kräht) is a 1936 German comedy film directed by Carl Froelich and starring Heinrich George, Hans Brausewetter and Marianne Hoppe.

[2] The film's sets were designed by the art directors Walter Haag and Franz Schroedter.

Lena, the daughter of the grouchy mayor in a rural village in Northern Germany, is in love with Peter, a young veterinarian.

However, her parents are against the match as she has already been promised to another man who is due to inherit a farm.

He is in turn courted by Marie, a woman who has recently arrived in the area.