The White Devil (film)
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The White Devil | |
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Directed by | Alexandre Volkoff |
Produced by | Noë Bloch Gregor Rabinovitch |
Written by | Leo Tolstoy (novella) Michel Linsky Alexandre Volkoff |
Starring | Ivan Mozzhukhin Lil Dagover Betty Amann Fritz Alberti |
Music by | Michael Lewin Marc Roland Willy Schmidt-Gentner |
Cinematography | Curt Courant Reimar Kuntze Nikolai Toporkoff |
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Distributed by | UFA |
Release dates
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29 January 1930 |
Running time
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110 minutes |
Country | Germany |
Language | German |
The White Devil (German:Der weiße Teufel) is a 1930 German drama film directed by Alexandre Volkoff and starring Ivan Mozzhukhin, Lil Dagover and Betty Amann. It was based on Leo Tolstoy's 1912 novella Hadji Murat.[1] It was originally made as a silent film, with a soundtrack added later. Anatole Litvak worked as the film's assistant director and production manager.
Contents
Cast
- Ivan Mozzhukhin as Hadschi Murat
- Lil Dagover as Nelidowa
- Betty Amann as Saira
- Fritz Alberti as Nicolai I.
- Acho Chakatouny as Schamil
- George Seroff as Rjaboff
- Alexander Murski as Woronzoff
- Kenneth Rive as Jussuff, Murat's son
- Eduardowa-Ballett as Dancers
- Henry Bender
- Rudolf Biebrach
- Alexej Bondireff
- Bobby Burns
- Arthur Cavara
- Hugo Döblin
- Harry Hardt
- Serge Jaroff
- A. Kawarro
- Peter Lorre (unknown role - not easily visible in the film)
- Lydia Potechina
- Marianne Winkelstern
References
- ↑ Kreimeier p.167
Bibliography
- Kreimeier, Klaus. The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918-1945. University of California Press, 1999.
External links
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). The White Devil at IMDb
- The Jaroff's Don Cossack Choir performs Vo Kuznitse.
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Categories:
- German-language films
- 1930s German film stubs
- 1930 films
- 1930s drama films
- German drama films
- German films
- Films of the Weimar Republic
- Films directed by Alexandre Volkoff
- Films set in Russia
- Films set in the 19th century
- Transitional sound films
- Films based on short fiction
- Films based on works by Leo Tolstoy
- German black-and-white films