''The False Prince'' (German: ''Der falsche Prinz'') is a 1927
German
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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
Heinz Paul
Heinz Paul (13 August 1893 – 14 March 1983) was a German screenwriter, film producer and film director, director. He was married to the actress Hella Moja.
Selected filmography Director
* ''The Street of Forgetting'' (1923)
* ''The Dice Game of ...
and starring
Harry Domela,
Ekkehard Arendt
Ekkehard Arendt (10 June 1892 – 10 May 1954) was an Austrian stage and film actor. Arendt served in the Austrian Army during the First World War, before moving to Germany to work in the theatre and film industry. He played the role of Handel Van ...
and
John Mylong
John Mylong (September 27, 1892 – September 8, 1975), also known as Jack Mylong-Münz, born Adolf Heinrich Münz, was an Austrian actor who later settled in the United States.
Selected filmography
* ''Der heilige Hass, 1. Teil'' (1921) - Rabo ...
.
[Hermanni p.127] It was shot at the
Johannisthal Studios
The Johannisthal Studios were film studios located in the Berlin area of Johannisthal. Founded in 1920 on the site of a former airfield, they were a centre of production during the Weimar and Nazi eras. Nearly four hundred films were made at Johan ...
in
Berlin
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. The film's
art direction
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was by
Karl Machus
Karl Machus (1884–1944) was a German art director. Along with Erich Zander he designed the sets for most of the films made by director Veit Harlan during the Nazi era.Noack p.145
Selected filmography
* '' Prince Cuckoo'' (1919)
* '' Blonde P ...
. The film was based on Domela's book recounting his own adventures in post-
First World War
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Germany when he briefly masqueraded as Prince.
Cast
*
Harry Domela as Harry Domela
*
Ekkehard Arendt
Ekkehard Arendt (10 June 1892 – 10 May 1954) was an Austrian stage and film actor. Arendt served in the Austrian Army during the First World War, before moving to Germany to work in the theatre and film industry. He played the role of Handel Van ...
as Baron von Korff, sein Freund
*
John Mylong
John Mylong (September 27, 1892 – September 8, 1975), also known as Jack Mylong-Münz, born Adolf Heinrich Münz, was an Austrian actor who later settled in the United States.
Selected filmography
* ''Der heilige Hass, 1. Teil'' (1921) - Rabo ...
as Fritz Stein, sein Freund
*
Hans Heinrich von Twardowski
Hans Heinrich von Twardowski (5 May 1898 – 19 November 1958) was a German film actor.
Career in Germany
Twardowski was born in Stettin, Germany (now Szczecin in Poland). He made his first film appearance in the 1920 Robert Wiene-directed horr ...
as Wolf, sein Freund
*
Hans Mierendorff
Hans Mierendorff (born Johannes Reingold Mierendorff; 30 June 1882 – 26 December 1955) was a German stage and film actor.
Selected filmography
* ''A Night of Horror'' (1916)
* '' Vengeance Is Mine'' (1916)
* ''Hilde Warren und der Tod'' ...
as Wolfs Vater
*
Mary Kid
Mary Kid (born Marie Anna Albertine Keul; 8 August 1901 – 29 October 1988) was a German actress. She appeared in more than forty films during the Weimar Republic, but her career came to an end in the early sound era.
Selected filmography
* '' H ...
as Wolfs Schwester
*
Corry Bell
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Places
* Corry, County Westmeath, a townland in Rathaspick civil parish, barony of Moygoish, County Westmeath, Ireland
*Lough Corry, a lake in Ireland
* Corry, Highland, the location of a pier in Broadford, Scotland
*Corry, Mi ...
as Elizza, ein Flüchtling
*
Adolphe Engers
Adolphe Engers (1884–1945) was a Dutch writer and actor on stage and in the movies, who appeared in more than fifty films during his career, a number of them in Weimar Germany.
Biography
Before his career in film, he was an actor on the stage a ...
as Frabrikant Müller
*
Else Reval
Else Reval (14 June 1893 – 25 January 1978) was a German film actress.Giesen p.210
Selected filmography
* ''War in Peace'' (1925)
* '' The World Wants To Be Deceived'' (1926)
* '' Marriage Announcement'' (1926)
* '' The Eleven Schill Officers'' ...
as Seine Frau
*
Alexander Murski
Alexander Alexandrovich Murski (Russian: Александр Александрович Мурский) (1 November 1869 – April 1943) was a Saint Petersburg, Russian-born German actor. Murski died in 1943 in Toulouse, Midi-Pyrénées, Fran ...
as Baron von Raaden
*
Carl Auen
Carl Theodor Auen (16 February 1892 – 23 June 1972) was a German film actor of the silent era. He appeared in more than 110 films between 1914 and 1938. Auen was a member of the Militant League for German Culture and also a member of the ...
as Legationsrat Garry
*
Wilhelm Bendow
Wilhelm Bendow (29 September 1884 – 29 May 1950) was a German film actor who appeared in many films during his career. Bendow made his debut in the 1913 film '' Aus eines Mannes Mädchenzeit''.Elsässer p.106
Selected filmography
* '' Lust for ...
as Der Hoteldirektor
*
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)
* '' ...
as Der Intendant
*
Hans Sternberg
Hans Sternberg (3 July 1878 – 13 May 1948) was a German-Jewish Siegbert Salomon Prawer, ''Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933'', Berghahn Books (2007), p. 213 stage and film actor.
Selected filmography ...
as Der Bürgermeister
*
Josefine Dora
Josefine Dora (born Isidora Emilie Friese; 13 November 1867 – 28 May 1944) was an Austrian stage and film actress. She appeared in over 100 films, generally in supporting roles such as in ''The Virtuous Sinner'' (1931).Prawer p.137
Selected f ...
as Seine Frau
*
Maria Forescu
Maria Forescu (15 January 1875 28 October 1947) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian opera singer and film actress. During the silent and talkies era of the German cinema, she appeared in several movies as a supporting actress. When Adolf Hitl ...
*
Herta Laurin Herta may refer to the following:
Given name
* Herta Anitaș (born 1967) Romanian rower and Olympic medalist
* Herta Bothe (born 1921), German guard at Nazi concentration camps
* Herta Däubler-Gmelin (born 1943), German politician, German Minister ...
*
Trude Lehmann
Trude Lehmann (1892–1987) was a German film actress.Grange p.307
Selected filmography
* ''Children of No Importance'' (1926)
* ''We'll Meet Again in the Heimat'' (1926)
* ''Unmarried Daughters
''Unmarried Daughters'' (German: ''Ledige Töcht ...
*
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.
Selected f ...
*
Lotte Stein
Lotte Stein (1894–1982) was a German actress of the stage and screen. Of Jewish descent, she fled to the United States via Czechoslovakia and Portugal, and arrived at the Port of New York on board the S/S ''Mouzinho'' in June 1941.
Selected fi ...
*
Lotte Spira
Lotte Spira (; 24 April 1883 – 17 December 1943) was a German stage and film actress. She appeared in supporting roles in around seventy films.
She was married to the Austrian actor Fritz Spira in 1905. In 1934 she divorced her Jewish husband ...
*
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
* 1922 ...
*
Carl Geppert
Carl Geppert was a German actor. He appeared in more than fifty films from 1919 to 1932.
Selected filmography
References
External links
*Postcard
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Date of death unknown
German male film actors
German male silent ...
*
Willy Kaiser-Heyl
Willy Kaiser-Heyl (4 August 1876 – 2 December 1953) was a German film actor. He appeared in 92 films between 1919 and 1952. He was born in Frankfurt, Germany and died in Berlin.
Selected filmography
* ''The Tragedy of a Great'' (1920)
* ...
*
Hans Leibelt
Hans Leibelt (11 March 1885 in Leipzig, German Empire – 3 December 1974 in Munich, West Germany) was a German film actor.
Selected filmography
* ''Heimliche Sünder'' (1926)
* '' The False Prince'' (1927)
* ''The Man in Search of His Murd ...
*
Alfred Loretto
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*''Alfred J. Kwak'', Dutch-German-Japanese anime television series
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*Alfred (Dvořák), ''Alfred'' (Dvořák), an 1870 opera ...
*
Edgar Pauly
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Like most Anglo-Saxon names, it fell out of use by the later medieval period; it was, however, rev ...
*
Paul Rehkopf
Paul Anton Heinrich Rehkopf (21 May 1872 – 29 June 1949) was a German actor.
He was born in Braunschweig and died in Braunschweig, Germany
Selected filmography
* '' Diary of a Lost Woman'' (1918)
* '' Film Kathi'' (1918)
* '' Lorenzo Burghardt ...
*
Fritz Richard
Fritz Richard (born Josef Richard Löwit; 17 November 1869 – 9 February 1933) was an Austrian actor and theatre director.
Fritz Richard was born as Josef Richard Löwit in Chotěboř, Austria-Hungary into a Jewish family.
Richard trained as a ...
*
Robert Scholz
Robert Scholz (23 April 1886 – 10 October 1927) was a German film actor of the silent era. He appeared in 76 films between 1919 and 1928. He was born in Germany and died in Berlin.
Selected filmography
* ''A Drive into the Blue'' (1919) ...
References
Bibliography
* Hermanni, Horst O. ''Das Film ABC Band 5: Von La Jana bis Robert Mulligan''. Books on Demand, 2011.
External links
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1927 films
Films of the Weimar Republic
German silent feature films
Films directed by Heinz Paul
Films set in the 1910s
Films set in Germany
Films about con artists
German black-and-white films
Bavaria Film films
Films shot at Johannisthal Studios
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