''High Treason'' (German: ''Hochverrat'') is a 1929

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silent

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directed by Johannes Meyer and starring

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and

Harry Hardt Harry Hardt (born Hermann Karl Viktor Klimbacher Edler von Reichswahr, Pula, 4 August 1899 – Vienna, 14 November 1980) was an Austrian actor. The son of a military officer, he initially planned a military career for himself, studying at a mil ...

. The film is set in pre-

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. Maurus' performance was contrasted favourably with her appearance in

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's ''

Woman in the Moon ''Woman in the Moon'' ( German ''Frau im Mond'') is a German science fiction silent film that premiered 15 October 1929 at the UFA-Palast am Zoo cinema in Berlin to an audience of 2,000. It is often considered to be one of the first "serious" ...

'' by the magazine ''Film und Volk''.Kreimeier p.167 The film's art direction was by

Willi Herrmann Willi Herrmann (1893–1968) was a German art director. Selected filmography * '' Madness'' (1919) * '' Child on the Open Road'' (1919) * '' Jettatore'' (1919) * '' Humanity Unleashed'' (1920) * '' The Secrets of Berlin'' (1921) * '' The Mahar ...

Cast

as Vera *

as Wassil Gurmai *

as Fürst Iwan Stolin *

Olga Engl Olga Engl (30 May 1871 – 21 September 1946) was an Austrian-German stage and motion picture actress who appeared in nearly 200 films. Biography Engl was privately educated in an Ursuline monastery and began her acting career at the Prague C ...

as Fürstin Stolin seine Mutter *

Leopold von Ledebur Leopold von Ledebur (18 May 1876 – 22 August 1955) was a German stage and film actor. Selected filmography * ''Carmen'' (1918) * ''The Serenyi'' (1918) * ''Midnight'' (1918) * ''The Foolish Heart'' (1919) * '' The Golden Lie'' (1919) * '' T ...

as Grossfürst Kyrill, der Governeur * Rudolf Biebrach as Oberst Petroff * Ossip Darmatow as Graf Starschenski * Félix de Pomés as Nimirski *

Harry Frank Harry Frank (15 October 1896 – 12 December 1947) was a German actor. Selected filmography * '' In den Goldfeldern von Nevada'' (1920) * '' Das wandernde Bild'' (1920) * ''The Wandering Image'' (1920) * '' Four Around a Woman'' (1921) * '' The ...

as Pawel

References

Bibliography

* Kreimeier, Klaus. ''The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918-1945''. University of California Press, 1999.

External links

* 1929 films Films of the Weimar Republic 1929 drama films German silent feature films German drama films Films directed by Johannes Meyer Films set in Russia Films set in the 1910s UFA GmbH films German black-and-white films Silent drama films 1920s German films 1920s German-language films {{Germany-silent-film-stub