''Colonel Chabert'' (german: Oberst Chabert) is a 1920 German
silent historical film
A historical drama (also period drama, costume drama, and period piece) is a work set in a past time period, usually used in the context of film and television. Historical drama includes historical fiction and romances, adventure films, and swa ...
directed by and starring
Eugen Burg
Eugen Burg (6 January 1871 – 17 April 1944) was a German actor. His daughter was Hansi Burg. Burg was a close friend of the actor Hans Albers.
Burg was born Eugen Hirschburg into a Jewish family, but later converted to Protestantism. He was ban ...
. It is an adaptation of
Honoré de Balzac
Honoré de Balzac ( , more commonly , ; born Honoré Balzac;Jean-Louis Dega, La vie prodigieuse de Bernard-François Balssa, père d'Honoré de Balzac : Aux sources historiques de La Comédie humaine, Rodez, Subervie, 1998, 665 p. 20 May 179 ...
's 1832 novel ''
Colonel Chabert''.
Cast
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Eugen Burg
Eugen Burg (6 January 1871 – 17 April 1944) was a German actor. His daughter was Hansi Burg. Burg was a close friend of the actor Hans Albers.
Burg was born Eugen Hirschburg into a Jewish family, but later converted to Protestantism. He was ban ...
as Oberst Chabert
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Wanda Treumann as Doppelrolle
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Oskar Marion
Oskar Marion (2 April 1896 – March 1986) was an Austrian film actor.
Life
Born as Oskar Viktor Lepka in Brno on 2 April 1896. His parents were physician Antonín Lepka and Žofie Lepková (née Müller). Marion went to study medicine to Vienn ...
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Max Laurence
Friedrich Rudolf Max Laurence (5 August 1852 – 26 May 1926) was a German stage and film actor.
Selected filmography
* ''Where Is Coletti?'' (1913)
* '' The Dancer'' (1915)
* '' Hans und Hanni'' (1915)
* '' Mountain Air'' (1917)
* '' Diary of a ...
References
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1920 films
Films of the Weimar Republic
German silent feature films
Films directed by Eugen Burg
German black-and-white films
1920s historical drama films
Napoleonic Wars films
Films set in the 1810s
Films based on works by Honoré de Balzac
Films based on French novels
German historical drama films
1920 drama films
Silent historical drama films
1920s German films
1920s German-language films
Works based on Colonel Chabert
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