Revolt in the Reformatory
Appearance
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Directed by | Georg Asagaroff |
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Production company | Grohnert-Film-Produktion |
Distributed by | Atlas-Filmverleih |
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Country | Germany |
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Revolt in the Reformatory (German: Revolte im Erziehungshaus) is a 1929 German silent drama film directed by Georg Asagaroff and starring Carl Balhaus, Vera Baranovskaya, Toni van Eyck. The film was based on a play by Peter Martin Lampel intended as an exposé of the youth justice system. The film was considered controversial, and was banned four times before its eventual release.[1] The film's art direction was by Andrej Andrejew.
Cast
[edit]- Carl Balhaus as Fritz
- Vera Baranovskaya as Fritz' mother
- Toni van Eyck as Fritz' sister
- Wolfgang Zilzer as Hans
- Peter Wolff as Erwin
- Julius E. Herrmann as Direktor
- Hugo Werner-Kahle as Hausvater
- Renate Müller as Hausvater's daughter
- Oskar Homolka as Erzieher
- Rudolf Platte as Erziehungsgehilfe
- Veit Harlan as Kurt
- Ilse Stobrawa as Lucie
- Willy Clever
- Friedrich Gnaß
References
[edit]- ^ Kreimeier p.192
Bibliography
[edit]- Kreimeier, Klaus. The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918-1945. University of California Press, 1999.
External links
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Categories:
- 1929 films
- 1929 drama films
- Films of the Weimar Republic
- German silent feature films
- Films directed by Georg Asagaroff
- German films based on plays
- German black-and-white films
- Silent German drama films
- 1920s German films
- 1920s German-language films
- German-language drama films
- 1920s drama film stubs
- Silent German film stubs