''Dr. Hart's Diary'' (German: ''Das Tagebuch des Dr. Hart'') is a 1917
German silent war film directed by
Paul Leni and starring
Heinrich Schroth,
Käthe Haack and
Dagny Servaes. The film depicts a German
field hospital in occupied
Russian Poland during the ongoing
First World War.
The film was created as part of a major effort to propagandize the German-Polish friendship that leads to the
re-establishment of Poland by German forces in late 1916. It was produced by
Paul Davidson's
PAGU in association with the propaganda agency
BUFA. Shortly afterwards, hoping to produce a number of similar films, the German government founded
UFA which PAGU merged into.
[Prawer p.4]
Cast
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Heinrich Schroth as Dr. Robert Hart
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Käthe Haack as Schlossherrin Ursula von Hohenau
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Dagny Servaes as Jadwiga Bransky
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Ernst Hofmann as Graf Bronislaw Krascinsky
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Adolf Klein as Graf Bransky
References
Bibliography
* Prawer, S.S. ''Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933''. Berghahn Books, 2005.
External links
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1917 films
1910s German-language films
Films of the German Empire
German war films
1917 war films
Films directed by Paul Leni
Films set in Poland
German World War I films
German silent feature films
German black-and-white films
1910s German films
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