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Masks (1929 Film)
''Masks'' (German: ''Masken'') is a 1929 German silent crime film directed by Rudolf Meinert and starring Karl Ludwig Diehl, Trude Berliner and Marcella Albani. It was the second film made by Meinert featuring the detective hero Stuart Webbs following ''The Green Monocle'' (1929).Prawer p.88 It was shot at the Grunewald Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art director Hermann Warm. Cast * Karl Ludwig Diehl as Stuart Webbs * Trude Berliner as Mary * Marcella Albani as Elyane * Charles Willy Kayser as Bankier Clifford * Hans Schickler as Jankins * Jean Murat as Jonny * Betty Astor as Goldelse * Borwin Walth as Kommissar Black * Gerhard Dammann as Wirt Pitt * Oskar Homolka Oskar Homolka (August 12, 1898 – January 27, 1978) was an Austrian film and theatre actor, who went on to work in Germany, Britain and America. Both his voice and his appearance fitted him for roles as communist spies or Soviet officials, for w ... as Breitkopf * Robert Klein ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudolf Meinert
Rudolf Meinert (1882–6 March 1943) was an Austrian screenwriter, film producer and film director, director. Meinert was born Rudolf Bürstein in Vienna, but worked for most of his career in the Cinema of Germany, German film industry. He became well-established as the producer/director of silent film, silent crime films. In the immediate post-First World War period, Meinert was head of production at the German studio Decla after his own production unit Meinert-Film was taken over by the larger outfit. Meinert, rather than Erich Pommer, is sometimes credited as the producer behind Decla's revolutionary ''The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari'' (1920). Following the Nazi takeover of power in Germany, Meinert, who was Jewish, went into exile in the Netherlands, however he returned to Austria. He moved to France in 1937 and live there until he was caught, sent to Drancy internment camp and transported to Majdanek concentration camp on 6 March 1943, where he died. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |