Carlos and Elisabeth
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| Directed by | Richard Oswald |
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| Produced by | Richard Oswald |
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| Music by | Willy Schmidt-Gentner |
Production company | Richard-Oswald-Produktion |
Release date | 26 February 1924 |
Running time | 115 minutes |
| Country | Germany |
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Carlos and Elisabeth (German: Carlos und Elisabeth) is a 1924 German silent drama film directed by Richard Oswald and starring Conrad Veidt, Eugen Klöpfer and Aud Egede Nissen.[1] It is based on the play Don Carlos by Friedrich Schiller. Oswald modelled the film's visuals on a staging of the play by Max Reinhardt at the Deutsches Theater.[2]
The film's sets were designed by the art director Oscar Friedrich Werndorff.
Cast
- Conrad Veidt as Don Carlos
- Eugen Klöpfer as Prince, later King Philippe of Spain
- Aud Egede Nissen as Princess Eboli
- William Dieterle as Marquis Posa
- Adolf Klein as Grand Inquisitor
- Robert Taube as Duke of Alba
- Friedrich Kühne as Don Perez, the Dukeäs Minister
- Rudolf Biebrach as Duke of Valois
- Dagny Servaes as Elisabeth von Valois
- Martin Herzberg as Don Carlos as a boy
References
Bibliography
- Eisner, Lotte H. The Haunted Screen: Expressionism in the German Cinema and the Influence of Max Reinhardt. University of California Press, 2008.
External links
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Categories:
- 1924 films
- German films
- Films of the Weimar Republic
- 1920s historical drama films
- German historical drama films
- German epic films
- German silent feature films
- German black-and-white films
- Films directed by Richard Oswald
- Films set in Spain
- Films set in the 16th century
- German films based on plays
- Films based on works by Friedrich Schiller
- Cultural depictions of Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba
- 1924 drama films
- 1920s German film stubs