''His Late Excellency'' (german: Die selige Exzellenz) is a 1927 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
Adolf E. Licho and
Wilhelm Thiele
Wilhelm Thiele (1890–1975) was an Austrian screenwriter and film director. He directed over 40 films between 1921 and 1960.
Life and career
Thiele started his show career as a stage actor. He got his start in Austrian and German film during t ...
and starring
Willy Fritsch
Willy Fritsch (27 January 1901 – 13 July 1973) was a German theater and film actor, a popular leading man and character actor from the silent-film era to the early 1960s.
Biography Early life
He was born Wilhelm Egon Fritz Fritsch, the only s ...
,
Olga Tschechowa
Olga Konstantinovna Chekhova (; russian: Ольга Константиновна Чехова; 14 April 1897 – 9 March 1980), known in Germany as Olga Tschechowa, was a Russian-German actress. Her film roles include the female lead in Alfred ...
, and
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)
* ''Mi ...
.
The film's sets were designed by the
art director Erich Czerwonski
Erich Czerwonski (1889–1940) was a German art director.Kreimeier p.73 He designed the sets for around a hundred productions during his career. He died in 1940 after being struck by a train during a blackout.
Filmography
* '' The Black Panther ...
and
Günther Hentschel.
Cast
References
Bibliography
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External links
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1927 films
Films of the Weimar Republic
German silent feature films
Films directed by Adolf E. Licho
Films directed by Wilhelm Thiele
German films based on plays
UFA GmbH films
German black-and-white films
Films with screenplays by Wilhelm Thiele
1920s German films
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