People in Need (film)
People in Need | |
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Directed by | Wolfgang Neff |
Written by | Marie Luise Droop |
Produced by | Liddy Hegewald |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Willy Goldberger |
Production company | Hegewald Film |
Distributed by | Hegewald Film |
Release date | 10 December 1925 |
Country | Germany |
Languages |
People in Need (German: Volk in Not or Ein Heldenlied von Tannenberg) is a 1925 German silent war film directed by Wolfgang Neff and starring Hermine Sterler, Werner Pittschau and Claire Rommer.[1]
The film's sets were designed by the art director Willi Herrmann.
Cast[]
- Hermine Sterler as Elisabeth Ditten, Gutsbesitzerin
- Werner Pittschau as Horst - Elisabeths Sohn
- Claire Rommer as Herta - Elisabeths Nichte
- Heinrich Peer as Der Oberst
- as Ein Offiziersbursche
- Wilhelm Diegelmann as Der Pastor
- Eva Speyer as Die Pastorin
- Sophie Pagay as Die Magd
- Eduard von Winterstein as General Samsonoff
- Gustav Adolf Semler as Graf Wolkonski - Samsonoffs Adjutant
- Karl Beckersachs as Jergunoff - russischer Stabsarzt
- Aruth Wartan as Russischer Generalstabchef
- Ernst Rückert as Russischer Leutnant
- as Ein Bauernmädchen
References[]
- ^ Kester p. 194
Bibliography[]
- Kester, Bernadette. Film Front Weimar: Representations of the First World War in German films of the Weimar Period (1919–1933). Amsterdam University Press, 2003.
External links[]
Categories:
- 1925 films
- German films
- Films of the Weimar Republic
- German silent feature films
- Films directed by Wolfgang Neff
- German war films
- 1920s war films
- German black-and-white films
- World War I films set on the Eastern Front
- 1920s German film stubs