''Colonel Redl'' (German: ''Oberst Redl'') is a 1925 Austrian silent

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directed by Hans Otto and starring

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and

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.Holmes & Silverman p.152 It portrays the career of the Austrian Army Officer

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, exposed as a foreign agent shortly before the

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Cast

as Oberst Alfred Redl *

as Oberst Ullmanitzky *

as Oberstleutnant Jamischewicz *

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as Major Wierenkoff *

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as Kriegsminister Rußlands *

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as Sonja Uraskow *

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as Hauptmann Erdmann's Braut * Carlos Gerspach as Hauptmann Erdmann *

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as Gendarmerieoberst Boreff * Julius Stärk as Auditor *

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References

Bibliography

* Deborah Holmes & Lisa Silverman. ''Interwar Vienna: Culture Between Tradition and Modernity''. Camden House, 2009.

External links

* 1925 films 1920s spy drama films Austrian drama films Austrian silent feature films Films directed by Hans Otto Austrian black-and-white films Films set in Vienna Films set in the 1910s 1925 drama films Silent drama films {{Austria-film-stub