''Countess Maritza'' (German: ''Gräfin Mariza'') is a 1925 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

Hans Steinhoff Hans Steinhoff (10 March 1882 – 20 April 1945) was a German film director, best known for the propaganda films he made in the Nazi era. Life and career Steinhoff started his career as a stage actor in the 1900s and later worked as a stag ...

and starring

Vivian Gibson Vivian Gibson (22 October 1898 – 9 May 1981) was a British-born Austrian actress. Selected filmography * '' Demos'' (1921) * '' The Glorious Adventure'' (1922) * ''Fräulein Raffke'' (1923) * ''Countess Maritza'' (1925) * '' The King and the ...

Harry Liedtke Harry Liedtke (12 October 1882 – 28 April 1945) was a German film actor. Early life Liedtke was born in Königsberg, East Prussia to a merchant as the seventh out of 12 children. After the death of his father in 1896, he grew up in an orphanage ...

and

Colette Brettel Colette Brettel (1902–1973) was a British stage and film actress. Born Dorothy Nicolette Pettigrew in London, she made her screen debut in the 1920 film ''Wuthering Heights'' and appeared in several British films of the early 1920s including '' ...

.Grange p.209 It is an adaptation of the operetta of the same title. The film's art direction was by

Julius von Borsody Julius von Borsody (8 April 1892 in Vienna – 18 January 1960, also in Vienna) was an Austrian film architect and one of the most employed set designers in the Austrian and German cinemas of the late silent and early sound film periods. His yo ...

Cast

as Gräfin Maritza *

as Graf Tassilo *

as Lisa *

Fritz Spira Fritz Spira (1 August 1881 – c. 1943) was an Austrian stage and film actor. He appeared frequently in films during the silent and early sound eras. Spira played the role of the Austrian Emperor Franz Josef in the 1926 film ''The Third Squadro ...

as Graf von Wittenburg * Robert Garrison as Fürst Moritz Dragomir Populescu *

Ernő Verebes Ernő Verebes (born Ernst Weiss, December 6, 1902 – June 13, 1971) was a Hungarian-American actor who began his career in Hungarian silent films in 1915. During his film career he worked and lived in Hungary, Germany and in the United States. ...

as Baron Koloman Zsupan *

Hedwig Pauly-Winterstein Hedwig Pauly-Winterstein (1866–1965) was a German stage and film actress. Selected filmography * '' The Clan'' (1920) * ''Anna Boleyn'' (1920) * ''President Barrada'' (1920) * ''Lady Godiva'' (1921) * '' The Inheritance'' (1922) * ''Tragedy of ...

as Elvira Pranticzek *

Wilhelm Diegelmann Wilhelm Diegelmann (28 September 1861 – 1 March 1934) was a German actor. Career Diegelmann's first stage appearance was in 1878 in the chorus for the Frankfurt Opera. In 1881 he debuted at the Frankfurt City Theater, playing King Lear, Wil ...

as Penizek *

Emil Heyse Emil or Emile may refer to: Literature *''Emile, or On Education'' (1762), a treatise on education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau * ''Émile'' (novel) (1827), an autobiographical novel based on Émile de Girardin's early life *''Emil and the Detective ...

as Dr. Tarrasch *

Siegfried Berisch Siegfried Berisch (? – 4 October 1933, in Vienna), was a German-JewishSiegbert Salomon Prawer, ''Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933'', Berghahn Books (2007), p. 213 actor. Partial filmography * 192 ...

as Mendel Popper * Carl Geppert as Freier

References

Bibliography

* Grange, William. ''Cultural Chronicle of the Weimar Republic''. Scarecrow Press, 2008.

External links

* 1925 films Films of the Weimar Republic Films directed by Hans Steinhoff German silent feature films Films based on operettas Terra Film films German black-and-white films {{Germany-silent-film-stub