''A Glass of Water'' (German: ''Ein Glas Wasser'') is a 1923
German
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silent historical drama film directed by
Ludwig Berger and starring
Mady Christians
Marguerita Maria "Mady" Christians (January 19, 1892 – October 28, 1951) was an Austrian actress who had a successful acting career in theatre and film in the United States until she was blacklisted during the McCarthy period.
Biography
She ...
,
Lucie Höflich
Lucie Höflich (born Helene Lucie von Holwede; 20 February 1883 – 9 October 1956) was a German actress, teacher and head of the Staatliche Schauspielschule (State Drama School) in Berlin. and
Hans Brausewetter. It premiered at the
UFA-Palast am Zoo
The Ufa-Palast am Zoo, located near Berlin Zoological Garden in the New West area of Charlottenburg, was a major Berlin cinema owned by Universum Film AG, or Ufa. Opened in 1919 and enlarged in 1925, it was the largest cinema in Germany until 192 ...
on 1 February 1923. It was based on
a play of the same title by
Eugène Scribe
Augustin Eugène Scribe (; 24 December 179120 February 1861) was a French dramatist and librettist. He is known for writing "well-made plays" ("pièces bien faites"), a mainstay of popular theatre for over 100 years, and as the librettist of ma ...
, set in England during the reign of
Queen Anne. The film was very well received both commercially and critically on its release. It is considered one of the milestones of
Weimar
Weimar is a city in the state of Thuringia, Germany. It is located in Central Germany between Erfurt in the west and Jena in the east, approximately southwest of Leipzig, north of Nuremberg and west of Dresden. Together with the neighbouri ...
cinema.
[Hardt, Ursula. ''From Caligari to California: Erich Pommer's life in the International Film Wars''. Berghahn Books, 1996. p. 78.]
The film's sets were designed by the
art director Rudolf Bamberger. It was made at the
Babelsberg Studios
Babelsberg Film Studio (german: Filmstudio Babelsberg), located in Potsdam-Babelsberg outside Berlin, Germany, is the second oldest large-scale film studio in the world only preceded by the Danish Nordisk Film (est. 1906), producing films since ...
in
Berlin
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with
location shooting
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The filming location may be the same in which the story is set (for ex ...
in
Bayreuth.
Cast
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Mady Christians
Marguerita Maria "Mady" Christians (January 19, 1892 – October 28, 1951) was an Austrian actress who had a successful acting career in theatre and film in the United States until she was blacklisted during the McCarthy period.
Biography
She ...
as Queen Anne
*
Lucie Höflich
Lucie Höflich (born Helene Lucie von Holwede; 20 February 1883 – 9 October 1956) was a German actress, teacher and head of the Staatliche Schauspielschule (State Drama School) in Berlin. as the
Duchess of Marlborough
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Hans Brausewetter as John William Masham (a fictionalised version of
Samuel Masham)
*
Rudolf Rittner
Rudolf Rittner (30 June 1869 – 4 February 1943) was a German actor born in Weissbach, Moravia, famous for playing knight and folk hero Florian Geyer in Gerhart Hauptmann's drama of the same name. The well-known German painter Lovis Corinth por ...
as Lord Henry Bolingbroke (a fictionalised version of
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke)
*
Helga Thomas as
Abigail
Abigail () was an Israelite woman in the Hebrew Bible married to Nabal; she married the future King David after Nabal's death ( 1 Samuel ). Abigail was David's second wife, after Saul and Ahinoam's daughter, Michal, whom Saul later marri ...
*
Hugo Döblin
Hugo Döblin (29 October 1876 – 4 November 1960) was a German stage and film actor.Hardt p.233 He appeared in more than eighty films, most of them during the silent era. The Jewish Döblin left Germany following the Nazi Party's rise to power i ...
as Tomwood the jeweller
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Hans Wassmann as Lord Richard Scott
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Bruno Decarli as Marquis Torcy
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Max Gülstorff
Max Walter Gülstorff (23 March 1882 – 6 February 1947) was a German actor and stage director.
Biography
Gülstorff was born in Tilsit, East Prussia. He first appeared in 1900 at the Rudolstadt municipal Theater and moved to Cottbus in 1908. ...
as Thompson
*
Franz Jackson as Hassan
*
Henry Stuart
*Joseph Römer
*
Gertrud Wolle
Gertrud Wolle (11 March 1891 – 6 July 1952) was a German film actress.
Selected filmography
* '' Die Insel der Glücklichen'' (1919)
* '' Prince Cuckoo'' (1919)
* '' Roswolsky's Mistress'' (1921)
* '' A Glass of Water'' (1923)
* ''Burglars'' ...
See also
*''
A Glass of Water'' (1960)
References
External links
*
Films of the Weimar Republic
German silent feature films
Films based on works by Eugène Scribe
Films directed by Ludwig Berger
Films set in England
Films set in London
Films set in the 1700s
German films based on plays
Cultural depictions of Anne, Queen of Great Britain
German historical films
1920s historical films
Films produced by Erich Pommer
German black-and-white films
Films shot at Babelsberg Studios
UFA GmbH films
1920s German films
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