The Patriot (1928 film)

The Patriot
Directed by	Ernst Lubitsch
Written by	Hanns Kräly Ashley Dukes (Play)
Starring	Emil Jannings Florence Vidor Lewis Stone Neil Hamilton
Music by	Max Bergunker
Cinematography	Bert Glennon
Editing by	Ernst Lubitsch
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date(s)	August 17, 1928 (1928-08-17)
Running time	113 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent film English sequences
Budget	$1 million

The Patriot is a 1928 semi-biographical film that was directed by Ernst Lubitsch and released by Paramount Pictures. The film was written by Hanns Kräly ; it is an adaptation of several different plays: Paul I by Dmitri Merezhkovsky, Der Patriot by Alfred Neumann, and The Patriot by Ashley Dukes. The Dukes play was performed on Broadway in January 1928. A young John Gielgud made his Broadway debut in that play. The movie is a biographical story of emperor Paul I of Russia, starring Emil Jannings, Florence Vidor and Lewis Stone.

Cast

• Emil Jannings - Czar Paul I
  

  

  Emil Jannings as emperor Paul I
• Florence Vidor - Countess Ostermann
• Lewis Stone - Count Pahlen
• Vera Voronina - Mademoiselle Lapoukhine
• Neil Hamilton - Crown Prince Alexander
• Harry Cording - Stefan

Awards

It won the Academy Award for Best Writing Achievement and was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Lewis Stone), Best Art Direction, Best Director and Best Picture. It was the only silent film nominated for Best Picture that year and the last to ever receive a Best Picture nomination until The Artist won for Best Picture in 2012.

Status as a lost film

Only pieces of this film are left; there is no complete copy. It is the only Best Picture Academy Award nominee for which no complete or near-complete copy exists.

See also

• List of lost films

External links

• The Patriot (1928 film) at the Internet Movie Database