Cagliostro (1929 film)

Cagliostro
Cagliostro
Directed by	Richard Oswald
Screenplay by	Georg C. Klaren; Herbert Juttke;
Based on	A novel; by Johannes von Guenther
Produced by	Vladimir Vengerov; Alexandre Kamenka;
Starring	Hans Stüwe
Cinematography	Jules Krüger; Maurice Desfassiaux;
Music by	Werner Schmidt-Boelcke
Production; companies	Les Films Albatros; Wengeroff-Film GmbH;
Release dates	8 April 1929 (Berlin); 21 May 1929 (Paris);
Countries	France; Germany;

Cagliostro is a 1929 silent drama film directed by Richard Oswald and starring Hans Stüwe, Renée Héribel and Alfred Abel. It depicts the life of the eighteenth century Italian occultist Alessandro Cagliostro, portraying him more sympathetically than in most other works.^[2] It was based on a novel by Johannes von Guenther.

Cast

Hans Stüwe as Cagliostro
Renée Héribel as Lorenza
Alfred Abel as Prince de Rohan
Ivan Koval-Samborsky as Benito
Rina De Liguoro as Laura, Marquise Espada
Charles Dullin as Marquis de Espada-Comte de Breteil
Illa Meery as Jeanne de la Motte
Edmond Van Daële as Louis XVI
Suzanne Bianchetti as Marie Antoinette
Jules Moy as Bohmer
Georges Deneubourg as Basange
Alice Tissot as Duchesse de Mittau
René Donnio as Chevreau
Jeannie Luxeuil
Andrée Canti
Roger Karl
Andrews Engelmann
Nicolas Rimsky
Teddy Michaud

Release

Caligostro premiered in Berlin on 8 April 1929.^[1] It was later shown in Paris on 21 May 1929.^[1] In the early 1930s, Universal Pictures planned a Cagliostro film starring Boris Karloff in the title role, which was later re-written into the script for The Mummy.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j "Cagliostro / Cagliostro. Liebe und Leben eines großen Abenteurers". Filmportal.de. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
^ Prawer p. 86
^ Workman & Howarth 2016, p. 337.

Bibliography

Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era. Baltimore: Midnight Marquee Press. ISBN 978-1-936168-68-2.
Prawer, Siegbert Salomon (2005). Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910–1933. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-84545-074-8.

External links

Cagliostro at IMDb

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[filmportal-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j "Cagliostro / Cagliostro. Liebe und Leben eines großen Abenteurers". Filmportal.de. Retrieved 6 January 2020.

[2] Prawer p. 86

[FOOTNOTEWorkmanHowarth2016337-3] Workman & Howarth 2016, p. 337.

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