''Jan Vermeulen, the Miller of Flanders'' (German: ''Jan Vermeulen, der Müller aus Flandern'') is a 1917 German silent

war War is an intense armed conflict between states, governments, societies, or paramilitary groups such as mercenaries, insurgents, and militias. It is generally characterized by extreme violence, destruction, and mortality, using regular o ...

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 ...

directed by

Georg Jacoby Georg Jacoby (23 July 1882 – 21 February 1964) was a German film director and screenwriter.Profile
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. It was made as a

propaganda film A propaganda film is a film that involves some form of propaganda. Propaganda films spread and promote certain ideas that are usually religious, political, or cultural in nature. A propaganda film is made with the intent that the viewer will ad ...

by the German film agency BUFA, which generally specialised in making documentaries but also made feature films such as this and ''

Dr. Hart's Diary ''Dr. Hart's Diary'' (German: ''Das Tagebuch des Dr. Hart'') is a 1917 German silent war film directed by Paul Leni and starring Heinrich Schroth, Käthe Haack and Dagny Servaes. The film depicts a German field hospital in occupied Russian Poland ...

''.Fuhrmann, Wolfgang ''Imperial Projections: Screening the German Colonies''.

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, 2015. p. 261.

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took place around

Bruges Bruges ( , nl, Brugge ) is the capital and largest city of the province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium, in the northwest of the country, and the sixth-largest city of the country by population. The area of the whole city a ...

and

Ghent Ghent ( nl, Gent ; french: Gand ; traditional English: Gaunt) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of the East Flanders province, and the third largest in the country, exceeded i ...

in German-occupied

Belgian Flanders The Flemish Region ( nl, Vlaams Gewest, ),; german: Flämische Region usually simply referred to as Flanders ( nl, link=no, Vlaanderen ) ; german: link=no, Flandern is one of the three regions of Belgium—alongside the Walloon Region and t ...

Cast

Richard Bruno Richard Bruno (August 21, 1924 – January 11, 2012) was an American costume designer. He worked on several feature films including ''Goodfellas'', ''Raging Bull'', The King of Comedy , and ''The Color of Money''. He won the BAFTA Award for ...

as Müller Jan Vermeulen *Rose Veldtkirch as Müllerin Marianne Vermeulen *

Karl Berger Karl Hans Berger (born March 30, 1935 in Heidelberg, Germany) is a German jazz pianist, composer, and educator. Career Berger played piano in Germany when he was ten and worked in his teens at a club in Heidelberg. He learned modern jazz from v ...

as Arzt Genesius *

Fred Immler Ferdinand "Fred" Immler (10 December 1880 –20 February 1965) was a German stage and film actor. Life Born in Coburg, as a young adult he worked from 1900 to 1902 at Deutsche Bank in Berlin and from 1902 to 1904 at Dresdner Bank. 1905 he returne ...

as Lehrer Johann Freihardt *Alfred Jürgens as Sohn Pieter Vermeulen *

Léo Lasko Léo Lasko (1885–1949) was a German screenwriter and film director of the silent and early sound eras. As Lasko was of Jewish descent he was classified as a "non- Aryan" by the Nazis. Following their 1933 takeover he was banned from film work ...

as Müllersknecht

References

Bibliography

*Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009.

External links

* Films of the German Empire German silent feature films Films directed by Georg Jacoby 1917 drama films German World War I films Films shot in Belgium German black-and-white films German war drama films Films set in Flanders 1910s war drama films Silent war drama films 1910s German films {{1910s-Germany-film-stub