''Gobseck'' is a 1924 German
silent drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...
directed by
Preben J. Rist and starring
Otto Gebühr
Otto Gebühr (29 May 1877 – 13 March 1954) was a German theatre and film actor, who appeared in 102 films released between 1917 and 1954. He is noted for his performance as the Prussian king Frederick the Great in numerous films.
Early lif ...
and
Clementine Plessner
Clementine Plessner (7 December 1855 – 27 February 1943) was an Austrian stage and film actress. Plessner worked in the German film industry and appeared in over sixty films, mostly during the silent era. Plessner featured in Richard Oswald's ...
.
[Grange p.170]
Cast
In alphabetical order
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Henry Bender
Henry Bender (born Harry Bandheimer; 1867–1933) was a German stage and film actor.Chandler p. 272 He appeared in more than a hundred films during his career.
Selected filmography
* ''The Devil'' (1918)
* '' Madeleine'' (1919)
* ''Whitechapel'' ...
as Simons - Bankdirektor
*
Rolf Brunner Rolf is a male given name and a surname. It originates in the Germanic name ''Hrolf'', itself a contraction of ''Hrodwulf'' ( Rudolf), a conjunction of the stem words ''hrod'' ("renown") + ''wulf'' ("wolf"). The Old Norse cognate is ''Hrólfr''. ...
as Dr. Bergner
*
Eugen Burg
Eugen Burg (6 January 1871 – 17 April 1944) was a German actor. His daughter was Hansi Burg. Burg was a close friend of the actor Hans Albers.
Burg was born Eugen Hirschburg into a Jewish family, but later converted to Protestantism. He was ban ...
as Graf Otto Hohnthal
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Gertrud de Lalsky
Gertrud de Lalsky (27 January 1878 in Danzig – 16 September 1958 in Berlin) was a German actress.
Selected filmography
* ''Catherine the Great'' (1920)
* ''Hypnosis'' (1920)
* ''Fridericus Rex'' (1922)
* ''The Island of Tears'' (1923)
* ''Pra ...
as Paronon Plessnitz
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Evi Eva
Evi Eva (1899–1985) was a German film actress.Goble p.190
Selected filmography
* '' The Eyes as the Accuser'' (1920)
* '' The Secrets of Berlin'' (1921)
* '' At the Edge of the Great City'' (1922)
* '' Hallig Hooge'' (1923)
* ''The Heart of Lil ...
as Gerda
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Otto Gebühr
Otto Gebühr (29 May 1877 – 13 March 1954) was a German theatre and film actor, who appeared in 102 films released between 1917 and 1954. He is noted for his performance as the Prussian king Frederick the Great in numerous films.
Early lif ...
as Jean Esther von Gobseck
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Ernst Hofmann
Ernst Karl Heinrich Hofmann (7 December 1880 – 27 April 1945) was a German stage and film actor.
Selected filmography
* '' The White Roses'' (1916)
* '' Dr. Hart's Diary'' (1917)
* '' Countess Kitchenmaid'' (1918)
* '' Ikarus, the Flying Man ...
as Horst
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Lissi Lind as Hermine
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Emil Mamelok
Emil or Emile may refer to:
Literature
*'' Emile, or On Education'' (1762), a treatise on education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
* ''Émile'' (novel) (1827), an autobiographical novel based on Émile de Girardin's early life
*'' Emil and the Detecti ...
as Frh. v. Landes
*
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 r ...
as Bürovorsteher
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Clementine Plessner
Clementine Plessner (7 December 1855 – 27 February 1943) was an Austrian stage and film actress. Plessner worked in the German film industry and appeared in over sixty films, mostly during the silent era. Plessner featured in Richard Oswald's ...
as seine Wirtschafterin
References
Bibliography
* Grange, William. ''Cultural Chronicle of the Weimar Republic''. Scarecrow Press, 2008.
External links
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1924 films
Films of the Weimar Republic
German silent feature films
German black-and-white films
Films based on works by Honoré de Balzac
German drama films
1924 drama films
Silent drama films
1920s German films
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