''Friend Ripp'' (German: ''Freund Ripp'') is a 1923 German
silent film
A silent film is a film with no synchronized Sound recording and reproduction, 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) ...
directed by
Alfred Halm and starring
Carl Geppert,
Ilka Grüning
Ilka Grüning (born Ilka Henriette Grunzweig; 4 September 1876 – 11 November 1964) was an Austrian-Hungarian actress. Born in Vienna in the old Austrian-Hungarian Empire, she was one of many Jewish actors and actresses that were forced to fle ...
, and
Käthe Haack
Käthe Haack (born Käte Lisbeth Minna Sophie Isolde Haack; 11 August 1897 – 5 May 1986) was a German stage and film actress. She appeared in more than 200 films and 30 television productions between 1915 and 1985.
Life and career
Käte Li ...
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[Gerhard Lamprecht. ''Deutsche Stummfilme, Volume 8'' p.901]
The film's sets were designed by the
art director Franz Schroedter
Franz Schroedter (9 May 1897 – 14 November 1968) was a German art director.Giesen p.212
Selected filmography
* '' The Black Count'' (1920)
* '' The Dance of Love and Happiness'' (1921)
* '' The New Paradise'' (1921)
* '' The Queen of Whitechap ...
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Cast
In alphabetical order
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Carl Geppert
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Ilka Grüning
Ilka Grüning (born Ilka Henriette Grunzweig; 4 September 1876 – 11 November 1964) was an Austrian-Hungarian actress. Born in Vienna in the old Austrian-Hungarian Empire, she was one of many Jewish actors and actresses that were forced to fle ...
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Käthe Haack
Käthe Haack (born Käte Lisbeth Minna Sophie Isolde Haack; 11 August 1897 – 5 May 1986) was a German stage and film actress. She appeared in more than 200 films and 30 television productions between 1915 and 1985.
Life and career
Käte Li ...
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Harry Halm
Harry Halm (born Harry Hermann Hahn; 17 January 1901 – 22 November 1980) was a German film actor.
He was the son of director Alfred Halm and took acting lessons with Eduard von Winterstein and Hermann Vallentin. He began his stage career in 191 ...
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Karl Harbacher
Karl Harbacher (1879–1943) was an Austrian actor.
Selected filmography
* '' Miss Piccolo'' (1914)
* '' No Sin on the Alpine Pastures'' (1915)
* ''Fanny Elssler'' (1920)
* '' Das blaue Duell'' (1920)
* '' The Adventuress of Monte Carlo'' (1921)
...
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Leonhard Haskel
Leonhard Haskel (7 April 1872 – 30 December 1923) was a German stage and film actor and drama teacher.
Haskel was born in Seelow, in the Prussian Province of Brandenburg, and died in Berlin.
Selected filmography
* ''Europe, General Deliver ...
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Edgar Klitzsch
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Hermann Picha
Hermann Picha (20 March 1865 – 7 June 1936) was a German stage and film actor. Picha was extremely prolific, appearing in over 300 short and feature films during the silent and early sound eras. Picha played a mixture of lead and supporting ...
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Charles Puffy
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Hugo Werner-Kahle
Hugo Werner-Kahle (5 August 1882 – 1 May 1961) was a German stage and film actor (and sporadically, a movie director). He appeared in around a hundred films during his career.
Selected filmography
* '' Midnight'' (1918)
* '' The Bracelet'' (191 ...
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Max Zilzer
Max Zilzer (23 November 1868, in Budapest – 1943, in Berlin) was a Hungarian-born German stage and film actor.
Zilzer was Jewish and died under interrogation by the Gestapo during World War II. He was the father of actor Wolfgang Zilzer.
Sele ...
References
External links
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1923 films
Films of the Weimar Republic
Films directed by Alfred Halm
German silent feature films
German black-and-white films
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