''Father and Son'' (german: Väter und Söhne) is a 1930 German-Swedish film directed by

Victor Sjöström Victor David Sjöström (; 20 September 1879 – 3 January 1960), also known in the United States as Victor Seastrom, was a pioneering Swedish film director, screenwriter, and actor. He began his career in Sweden, before moving to Hollywood in ...

and starring

Rudolf Rittner Rudolf Rittner (30 June 1869 – 4 February 1943) was a German actor born in Weissbach, Moravia, famous for playing knight and folk hero Florian Geyer in Gerhart Hauptmann's drama of the same name. The well-known German painter Lovis Corinth por ...

, Franziska Kinz and

Martin Herzberg Martin Herzberg (1911-1972) was a German film actor. As a child actor he appeared in over thirty films during the silent and early sound eras. Herzberg was of Jewish heritage.Prawer p.213 He retired from films in 1930 at the age of nineteen and ...

.Parish & Pitts p. 360 It was shot at the

Råsunda Studios Filmstaden was a film studio situated in Råsunda, Solna Municipality in Stockholm, Sweden. History Filmstaden was once one of the most modern film studios in Europe. It was built in 1919–1920 on the basis of designs by Swedish architec ...

Stockholm Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, largest city of Sweden as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people liv ...

. The film's sets were designed by the

art director Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film industry, film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...

Vilhelm Bryde Vilhelm Bryde (8 April 1888 – 24 April 1974) was a Swedish actor, film producer, and art director. Biography From 1909 to 1911, he was a student at Dramaten. Bryde was an actor at Svenska Teatern in Stockholm (1913-1919). He was director of t ...

. A separate Swedish-language film was released the following year.

Cast

as Harald Hilding Markurell, the Innkeeper * Franziska Kinz as Mrs. Karin Markurell *

as Johann Markurell * Alfred Gerasch as Karl-Magnus de Lorche *

Carl Balhaus Carl Balhaus (born Carl Ballhaus; 4 November 1905 – 28 July 1968) was a German stage and film actor. After the Second World War he worked as screenwriter and director for the East German state-owned studio DEFA. He was an uncle of the Academ ...

as Louis de Lorche * Elfriede Borodin as Brita, the niece of Karl-Magnus *

Ernst Gronau Ernst Gronau (21 August 1887 – 10 August 1938) was a German stage, writer and film actor. Selected filmography * ''Prostitution'' (1919) * '' Genuine'' (1920) * ''Roswolsky's Mistress'' (1921) * ''The Graveyard of the Living'' (1921) * ''Miss ...

as Sven Ström, the Barber *

Artur Retzbach Artur is a cognate to the common male given name Arthur, meaning "bear-like," which is believed to possibly be descended from the Roman surname Artorius or the Celtic bear-goddess Artio or more probably from the Celtic word ''artos'' ("bear"). Ot ...

as Per Ström, his brother, the School Janitor *

Philipp Manning Philipp Manning (23 November 1869 – 9 April 1951) was a British-born German actor. He was born in Lewisham to a British father and a German mother. He was sent to Germany for his education and settled there. He often played British characters i ...

as Principal * Gustav Rickelt as the Dean. School Censor *

Ernst Dernburg Ernst Dernburg (born Erich Wilhelm Franz Hermann Calow; 4 April 1887 – 23 September 1969) was a German stage and film actor.Giesen p.198 Selected filmography *'' The Sacrifice'' (1918) * '' The Living Dead'' (1919) * ''The Marquise of Armiani'' ...

as the Chemistry Professor. School Censor

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* 1930 films Films of the Weimar Republic 1930s German-language films Films directed by Victor Sjöström Films based on Swedish novels Terra Film films German multilingual films German black-and-white films Swedish black-and-white films German drama films Swedish drama films 1930 drama films 1930 multilingual films 1930s German films {{1930s-Germany-film-stub