''My Friend Harry'' (German: ''Mein Freund Harry'') is a 1928 German

silent film A silent film is a film with no synchronized 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) or key lines of dialogue may, when ...

directed by

Max Obal Max Obal (born Max David Gotthelf Sroke; 4 September 1881 – 18 May 1949) was a German actor, singer, screenwriter, and film director. He co-directed the 1927 swashbuckler '' Rinaldo Rinaldini'' featuring Hans Albers.Grange p.251 Selected filmog ...

and

Rudolf Walther-Fein Rudolf Walther-Fein (20 November 1875 – 1 May 1933) was an Austrian film director and producer of the Silent and early sound era. He directed the first full sound film to be released in Germany ''It's You I Have Loved'' in 1929.Kreimeier p.182 ...

and starring Harry Liedtke,

Maria Paudler Maria Paudler (20 June 1903 – 17 August 1990) was an Austro-Hungarian-born German actress. Selected filmography * '' Madame Wants No Children'' (1926) * ''The Young Man from the Ragtrade'' (1926) * '' The Violet Eater'' (1926) * ''One Does No ...

and

Otto Wallburg Otto Wallburg (21 February 1889 – 29 October 1944) was a German actor and Kabarett performer. He was a prolific film actor during the late silent and early sound era. Wallburg was born Otto Maximilian Wasserzug in Berlin, the son of a Jewish ...

.Goble p.483 The film's

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was by

Botho Hoefer Botho Hoefer (1880–1958) was a German art director.Parrill p.231 Selected filmography * '' The Golden Plague'' (1921) * ''Lucrezia Borgia'' (1922) * '' Louise de Lavallière'' (1922) * '' The Evangelist'' (1924) * '' The Hobgoblin'' (1924) * ' ...

and

Hans Minzloff Hans Minzloff (1890–1962) was a German art director.Gemünden p.171 Selected filmography * ''Our Heavenly Bodies'' (1925) * '' Struggle for the Soil'' (1925) * ''Carnival Magic'' (1927) * ''The Insurmountable'' (1928) * ''The Circus Princess'' ...

Cast

* Harry Liedtke as Harry Gill *

as May Elliot *

as Gen.Dir. Fredy Sanderson *

Bruno Kastner Richard Otto Bruno Kastner (January 1890Different sources cite 1 January, 3 January, 20 January, and 30 January as Kastner's date of birth. – 30 June 1932) was a German stage and film actor, screenwriter, and film producer whose career was most ...

as Luigi Vicelli * Rina Maggi as Diane de Lusigny * Cord Morton as Ein Artist * Ida Wüst as Die Tante *

Karl Falkenberg Karl Falkenberg (born Karl Franz Josef Falkenberg, 6 April 1887 – died after 1936) was a German-Jewish film actor. Selected filmography * '' Clown Charly'' (1918) * '' Cain'' (1918) * '' Blackmailed'' (1920) * ''The Song of the Puszta'' (1 ...

as Ein Diener

References

Bibliography

* Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

External links

* 1928 films Films of the Weimar Republic German silent feature films Films directed by Max Obal Films directed by Rudolf Walther-Fein Films based on German novels German black-and-white films {{Germany-silent-film-stub