''Always Be True and Faithful'' (german: Üb' immer Treu' und Redlichkeit ) is a 1927 German
silent film
A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, when ...
directed by
Reinhold Schünzel
Reinhold Schünzel (7 November 1888 – 11 November 1954) was a German actor and director, active in both Germany and the United States. The son of a German father and a Jewish mother, he was born in St. Pauli, the poorest part of Hamburg. Despite ...
and starring
Reinhold Schünzel
Reinhold Schünzel (7 November 1888 – 11 November 1954) was a German actor and director, active in both Germany and the United States. The son of a German father and a Jewish mother, he was born in St. Pauli, the poorest part of Hamburg. Despite ...
,
Rosa Valetti
Rosa Valetti (25 January 1876, Berlin, Germany – 10 December 1937, Vienna, Austria), born Rosa Alice Vallentin, was a German actress, cabaret performer, and singer.
Biography
Rosa Valetti was born in Berlin, the daughter of industrialist Fel ...
and
Julius E. Herrmann.
[Bock & Bergfelder p. 524]
The film's sets were designed by the
art director
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It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...
s
Emil Hasler
Emil Hasler (November 8, 1901 – January 15, 1986) was a German art director who worked on more than a hundred films during his career. These included a number of Weimar classics such as ''Diary of a Lost Girl, M'' and ''The Blue Angel''.Prawe ...
and
Oscar Friedrich Werndorff
Oscar Friedrich Werndorff (1880–1938) was an Austrian art director. After leaving Germany in the early 1930s he moved to Britain where he worked in the British film industry. He co-directed the 1931 film '' The Bells''.Bergfelder & Cargnel ...
.
Cast
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Reinhold Schünzel
Reinhold Schünzel (7 November 1888 – 11 November 1954) was a German actor and director, active in both Germany and the United States. The son of a German father and a Jewish mother, he was born in St. Pauli, the poorest part of Hamburg. Despite ...
as Orje Duff
*
Rosa Valetti
Rosa Valetti (25 January 1876, Berlin, Germany – 10 December 1937, Vienna, Austria), born Rosa Alice Vallentin, was a German actress, cabaret performer, and singer.
Biography
Rosa Valetti was born in Berlin, the daughter of industrialist Fel ...
as Fedora Bratfisch, Karussellbesitzerin
*
Julius E. Herrmann as Anton Rabach, Inhaber eines Modellhauses
*
Lydia Potechina
Lydia Potechina (5 September 1883 – 30 April 1934) was a Russian actress. She emigrated to Germany in 1918. She was married to the Russian-German film producer Max Pfeiffer.
Selected filmography
*''Destiny'' (1921)
* '' The Conspiracy in Genoa ...
as Friderike Rabach, Antons Frau
*
Ernst Hofmann
Ernst Karl Heinrich Hofmann (7 December 1880 – 27 April 1945) was a German stage and film actor.
Selected filmography
* '' The White Roses'' (1916)
* '' Dr. Hart's Diary'' (1917)
* '' Countess Kitchenmaid'' (1918)
* '' Ikarus, the Flying Man ...
as Kasimir Rabach, beider Sohn
*
Toni Philippi as Laetitia Della Casa
*
Sig Arno
Sig Arno (born Siegfried Aron, 27 December 1895 – 17 August 1975) was a German-Jewish film actor who appeared in such films as ''Pardon My Sarong'' and ''The Mummy's Hand''. He may be best remembered from ''The Palm Beach Story'' (1942) as Toto ...
as Poldi Meindl
*
Margot Landa
Margot Walter, also known as Margot Landa (4 October 1903 in Potsdam, Germany – April 1994 in Camden Town, London, England), was a German actress.
Life and career
Born in Potsdam near Berlin Walter became a regular member of the cast at the ...
as Christine Bleibtreu
*
Yvette Darnys
Yvette is female given name, the French feminine form of Yves, which means yew or archer in some cases.
Name days
*Czech Republic: ''7 June''
*Hungary: ''13 January'', ''6 May'' and ''29 June''
*Poland: ''13 January''
*Slovakia: ''27 May''
...
as Yvette, Revuestar
*
Kurt Gerron
Kurt Gerron (11 May 1897 – 28 October 1944) was a German History of the Jews in Germany, Jewish actor and film director. He and his wife, Olga were murdered in the Holocaust.
Life
Born Kurt Gerson into a well-off merchant family in Berlin, he ...
as Yvettes Mann
*
Paul Westermeier
Paul Westermeier (9 July 1892 – 17 October 1972) was a German film actor.
Selected filmography
* '' Wedding in the Eccentric Club'' (1917)
* ''Agnes Arnau and Her Three Suitors'' (1918)
* ''About the Son'' (1921)
* '' Memoirs of a Film Actre ...
as Karl, Hausdiener bei Rabach
*
Hans Albers
Hans Philipp August Albers (22 September 1891 – 24 July 1960) was a German actor and singer. He was the biggest male movie star in Germany between 1930 and 1960 and one of the most popular German actors of the twentieth century.
Early life
...
*
Ferdinand Bonn
Ferdinand Bonn (20 December 1861 – 24 September 1933) was a German stage and film actor.
Bonn was born in Donauwörth, Bavaria, Germany and died at age 71 in Berlin.
Selected filmography
* ''Svengali'' (1914)
* '' The Silent Mill'' (1914)
* '' ...
*
Gaston Briese
Gaston Briese (19 August 1898 – 22 March 1953) was a German stage and film actor. He appeared in more than forty films during his career, which spanned from the late silent era to the mid-1940s. His final appearance was in the 1946 rubble film ...
References
Bibliography
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External links
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1927 films
Films of the Weimar Republic
German silent feature films
German black-and-white films
Films directed by Reinhold Schünzel
UFA GmbH films
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