The Blackguard
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| Directed by | Graham Cutts |
| Written by | Raymond Paton (novel) Alfred Hitchcock Adrian Brunel |
| Produced by | Michael Balcon Erich Pommer |
| Starring | Jane Novak Walter Rilla Frank Stanmore Bernhard Goetzke |
| Cinematography | Theodor Sparkuhl |
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| Distributed by | Wardour Films (UK) Lee-Bradford Corporation (US) |
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| Countries | United Kingdom Weimar Republic |
| Languages | Silent film English intertitles German intertitles |
The Blackguard (German: Die Prinzessin und der Geiger) (1925) is a British-German drama film directed by Graham Cutts and starring Jane Novak, Walter Rilla and Frank Stanmore.[1]
Premise
Against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution, a violinist (Rilla) saves a princess (Novak) from execution.
Cast
- Jane Novak as Prinzessin Maria Idourska / Princess Marie Idourska
- Walter Rilla as Michael Caviol, The Blackguard
- Frank Stanmore as Pompouard
- Bernhard Goetzke as Adrian Levinsky
- Rosa Valetti as Grandmother
- Dora Bergner as Duchess
- Fritz Alberti as Painter
- Robert Leffler as Leidner
- Alexander Murski as Vollmark
- Martin Herzberg as Michael Caviol as a boy
- Loni Nest as Prinzessin Maria as little girl
- Robert Scholz as Grandduke Paul
Production
The film was a co-production between Gainsborough Studios and UFA initiating a decade-long series of co-productions which ended with the rise of the Nazi Party in the 1930s.[2] The film was based on the novel The Blackguard by Raymond Paton, and 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 American film The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927).[3]
While working on the film, Alfred Hitchcock was able to study several films being made nearby, including The Last Laugh (1924) by F. W. Murnau, which were a major influence on his later work.
References
- ^ http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/26077
- ^ Cook p.16-17
- ^ Cook p.36
Bibliography
- 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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- 1925 films
- 1920s drama films
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- British silent feature films
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- Films directed by Graham Cutts
- Films based on British novels
- British black-and-white films
- German black-and-white films
- Films produced by Erich Pommer
- Russian Revolution films
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