Ride to Freedom
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Directed by | Karl Hartl |
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Edited by | Gertrud Hinz-Nischwitz |
Music by | Wolfgang Zeller |
Production company | UFA |
Distributed by | UFA |
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Running time | 92 minutes |
Country | Germany |
Language | German |
Ride to Freedom (German: Ritt in die Freiheit) is a 1937 German historical war film directed by Karl Hartl and starring Willy Birgel, Viktor Staal and Hansi Knoteck. The film is set in the 1830s during Poland's November Uprising against the Russian Empire. It portrays the rehabilitation of a Polish cavalry officer whose initial reluctance to engage the enemy leads to the death of his comrades, but later dies fighting bravely.
The film was made by German's leading studio UFA, with interiors shot at the Babelsberg Studios. UFA received co-operation from the Polish War Ministry who supplied 5th Regiment of Zaslaw Uhlans for the filming of battles scenes that took place around Ostroleka in Poland. The Polish ambassador to Germany Józef Lipski attended the film's premiere at the Palast-am-Zoo in Berlin on 14 January 1937. Around the same time Germany and Poland, future enemies in the Second World War, co-produced two films together Augustus the Strong and Adventure in Warsaw.[1]
Cast[]
- Willy Birgel as Julek Staniewski
- Viktor Staal as Jan Wolski
- Hansi Knoteck as Janka Koslowska
- Ursula Grabley as Katerina Tschernikoff
- Heinz von Cleve as Saganoff
- Berthold Ebbecke as Malinowski
- Werner Schott as Bobrikoff
- Edwin Jürgensen as Fürst Tschernikoff
- Hermann Braun as Milewski - polnischer Fähnrich
- as Smirnoff - russischer Fähnrich
- Rudolf Schündler as Polnischer Student
- as Polnischer Wachtmeister
- Clemens Hasse as Betrunkener Fährmann
- Peter Elsholtz as Adjutant des Gouverneurs
- Horst Birr as Krupka
- as Hässlicher Ulan
- as Gouvernante
- as Major
- as Diener des Rittmeisters Staniewski
- as Erzieher des Prinzen
- as Unparteiischer beim Duell
- as Junges Mädchen beim Ball
- as Großfürst
- as Begleiterin des Gouverneurs beim Ball
- Michael von Newlinsky as Russischer Offizier beim Ball
References[]
- ^ Kreimeier p. 283
Bibliography[]
- Kreimeier, Klaus (1999). The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918–1945. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-22069-0.
External links[]
- 1937 films
- German-language films
- German films
- Films of Nazi Germany
- German war films
- German historical films
- 1930s historical films
- 1930s war films
- Films directed by Karl Hartl
- Films set in the 1830s
- Films set in Poland
- Films shot in Poland
- German black-and-white films
- Films shot at Babelsberg Studios
- UFA GmbH films
- 1930s German film stubs