The Blackguard
| The Blackguard | |
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| Directed by | Graham Cutts |
| Produced by | Michael Balcon Erich Pommer |
| Written by | Raymond Paton (Novel) Alfred Hitchcock Adrian Brunel |
| Starring | Jane Novak Walter Rilla Frank Stanmore Bernhard Goetzke |
| Cinematography | Theodor Sparkuhl |
| Studio | Gainsborough Pictures UFA Studios |
| Distributed by | Wardour Films Lee-Bradford Corporation |
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| Country | United Kingdom Weimar Republic |
| Language | English, German |
The Blackguard (1925) is a British-German drama film directed by Graham Cutts and starring Jane Novak, Walter Rilla, and Frank Stanmore.[1] Its German title is Die Prinzessin und der Geiger. Against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution a violinist saves a Princess from execution.
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Production[edit]
It was a co-production between Gainsborough Studios and UFA initiating a decade-long series of co-productions which only ended with the rise to power of the Nazi Party in the 1930s.[2] It was based on the novel The Blackguard by Raymond Paton. The film was shot at Studio Babelsberg, in Potsdam near Berlin, the first time a Gainsborough film was shot abroad. The film was one of a number of films made in this genre during the 1920s, the most successful of which was the 1927 American film The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg.[3]
While working on the film, Alfred Hitchcock was able to study several films being made nearby, including The Last Laugh by F. W. Murnau, which were a major influence on his later work.
Cast[edit]
- Jane Novak – Prinzessin Maria Idourska / Princess Marie Idourska
- Walter Rilla – Michael Caviol, The Blackguard
- Frank Stanmore – Pompouard
- Bernhard Goetzke – Adrian Levinsky
- Rosa Valetti – Grandmother
- Dora Bergner – Duchess
- Fritz Alberti – Painter
- Robert Leffler – Leidner
- Alexander Murski – Vollmark
- Martin Herzberg – Michael Caviol as a boy
- Loni Nest – Prinzessin Maria as little girl
- Robert Scholz – Grandduke Paul
References[edit]
- ^ http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/26077
- ^ Cook p.16-17
- ^ Cook p.36
Bibliography[edit]
- Cook, Pam (ed.). Gainsborough Pictures. Cassell, 1997.
- Kreimeier, Klaus. The Ufa story: a history of Germany's greatest film company, 1918–1945. University of California Press, 1999.
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