The Vulture Wally (1921 film)
Appearance
The Vulture Wally | |
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Directed by | Ewald André Dupont |
Written by | Wilhelmine von Hillern (novel) Ewald André Dupont |
Produced by | Hanns Lippmann Henny Porten |
Starring | Albert Steinrück Henny Porten William Dieterle Eugen Klöpfer |
Cinematography | Karl Hasselmann Arpad Viragh |
Music by | Giuseppe Becce Bruno Schulz |
Production company | |
Distributed by | UFA |
Release date | 12 September 1921 |
Country | Germany |
Languages | Silent German intertitles |
The Vulture Wally (German: Die Geierwally) is a 1921 German silent drama film directed by Ewald André Dupont and starring Albert Steinrück, Henny Porten and William Dieterle. The film is a bergfilm based on a novel by Wilhelmine von Hillern. It is a melodrama set in the Alps, and was one of Dupont's most successful films of the early 1920s.[1]
Cast
- Albert Steinrück as Stromminger, der Höchstbauer
- Henny Porten as Wally, Seine Tochter
- William Dieterle as Der Bären-Joseph
- Eugen Klöpfer as Der Gellner-Vincenz
- Elise Zachow-Vallentin as Luckard
- Marie Grimm-Einödshofer as Die Obermagd
- Julius Brandt as Klettenmeyer
- Wilhelm Diegelmann as Roferbauer sen.
- Gerd Fricke as Roferbauer jun.
- Grete Diercks as Afra
See also
- La Leggenda di Wally (1930)
- La Wally (1932, based on the opera)
- The Vulture Wally (1940)
- The Vulture Wally (1956)
References
- ^ Bergfelder & Cargnelli p.28
Bibliography
- Bergfelder, Tim & Cargnelli, Christian. Destination London: German-speaking emigrés and British cinema, 1925-1950. Berghahn Books, 2008.
External links
Categories:
- 1921 films
- 1920s drama films
- German drama films
- German films
- Films of the Weimar Republic
- German silent feature films
- Films directed by Ewald André Dupont
- Films set in Bavaria
- Films set in the Alps
- Films based on German novels
- Mountaineering films
- German black-and-white films
- UFA films
- 1920s drama film stubs
- Silent German film stubs