''The Picture of Dorian Gray'' (German: ''Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray'') is a 1917
German
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silent fantasy film directed by
Richard Oswald and starring
Bernd Aldor
Bernd is a Low German short form of the given name Bernhard (English Bernard).
List of persons with given name Bernd
The following people share the name Bernd.
*Bernd Brückler (born 1981), Austrian hockey player
* Bernd Eichinger (1949–2011), ...
,
Ernst Pittschau
Ernst Pittschau (5 October 1883 – 2 June 1951) was a German stage and film actor.
Biography
Pittschau, whose father's name was also named Ernst Pittschau, a stage actor, received an education in business and had a brief career selling dental p ...
, and
Ernst Ludwig
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, mother =Princess Alice of the United Kingdom
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. The film is based on the 1890 novel ''
The Picture of Dorian Gray
''The Picture of Dorian Gray'' is a philosophical novel by Irish writer Oscar Wilde. A shorter novella-length version was published in the July 1890 issue of the American periodical '' Lippincott's Monthly Magazine''.''The Picture of Dorian G ...
'' by
Oscar Wilde.
The film's sets were designed by the
art director Manfred Noa
Manfred Noa (22 March 1893 – 5 December 1930) was a German film director. Noa was described by Vilma Bánky, who he directed twice, as her "favourite director". Noa's 1924 film '' Helena'' has been called his "masterpiece" although it was so exp ...
.
Plot summary
Cast
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Bernd Aldor
Bernd is a Low German short form of the given name Bernhard (English Bernard).
List of persons with given name Bernd
The following people share the name Bernd.
*Bernd Brückler (born 1981), Austrian hockey player
* Bernd Eichinger (1949–2011), ...
as Dorian Gray
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Ernst Pittschau
Ernst Pittschau (5 October 1883 – 2 June 1951) was a German stage and film actor.
Biography
Pittschau, whose father's name was also named Ernst Pittschau, a stage actor, received an education in business and had a brief career selling dental p ...
as Sir Henry Wotton
* Ernst Ludwig as Basil Hallward, painter
* Andreas Van Horn as Alan Campbell, pharmacist
* Lea Lara as Sibyl Vane
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Sophie Pagay
Sophie Berg Pagay (22 April 1860 – 23 January 1937) was an Austrian stage and film actress, born in Brünn, Austria-Hungary. She began acting as a child, and went to Berlin to perform on stage in 1887. She married actor Hans Pagay.
Selecte ...
as Dorian's mother
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Arthur Wellin
Arthur Wellin (born 31 October 1880, date of death unknown) was a German film director, actor, screenwriter and producer. He directed 18 films between 1916 and 1927. He also appeared in 11 films between 1915 and 1933. He was born in Berlin, Germ ...
as James Vane, Sibyl's brother
*
Lupu Pick as Dorian's valet
See also
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Adaptations of ''The Picture of Dorian Gray''
Bibliography
* Kohl, Norbert. ''Oscar Wilde: The Works of a Conformist Rebel''. Cambridge University Press, 1989.
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1917 films
German fantasy films
Films directed by Richard Oswald
Films set in England
German silent feature films
1910s fantasy films
Films of the German Empire
Films based on The Picture of Dorian Gray
German black-and-white films
Silent horror films
1910s German films
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