''Crucified Girl'' (German: ''Mädchen am Kreuz'') is a 1929
German
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silent drama film
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directed by
Jacob Fleck
Jacob Fleck (8 November 1881 in Vienna as Jacob Julius Fleck – 19 September 1953, also in Vienna) was an Austrian film director, screenwriter, film producer and cameraman. He is noted for his long-standing professional partnership with his wife ...
and
Luise Fleck
Luise Fleck, also known as Luise Kolm or Luise Kolm-Fleck, née Louise or Luise Veltée (1 August 1873–15 March 1950), was an Austrian film director, and has been considered the second ever female feature film director in the world, after A ...
[Prawer p.85] and starring
Valerie Boothby
Valerie Boothby (born Wally Drucker, 18 October 1904 – 14 April 1982) was a German actress, painter, and writer.
Biography
Valerie Boothby was born Wally Drucker on 18 October 1904 in Hamburg-Mitte, Hamburg, in what was then the German Empire, ...
,
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 ...
and
Evelyn Holt
Evelyn Holt (born Edith Toni Elsbeth Wenckens; 3 October 1908 – 22 February 2001) was a German actress.
Biography
The daughter of a journalist, she began her film career at UFA. She quickly advanced to starring roles alongside Gustav Fröhlich ...
. It was shot at the
Johannisthal Studios
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in
Berlin
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. The film's
art direction
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was by
Artur Gunther and
August Rinaldi
August Rinaldi (1883–1962) was a German art director. He worked on around fifty films during the silent era. Rinaldi was of Jewish descent.Prawer p.212
Selected filmography
* ''Let There Be Light'' (1917)
* '' Diary of a Lost Woman'' (1918)
* ...
.
Cast
In alphabetical order
*
Valerie Boothby
Valerie Boothby (born Wally Drucker, 18 October 1904 – 14 April 1982) was a German actress, painter, and writer.
Biography
Valerie Boothby was born Wally Drucker on 18 October 1904 in Hamburg-Mitte, Hamburg, in what was then the German Empire, ...
*
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 ...
*
Evelyn Holt
Evelyn Holt (born Edith Toni Elsbeth Wenckens; 3 October 1908 – 22 February 2001) was a German actress.
Biography
The daughter of a journalist, she began her film career at UFA. She quickly advanced to starring roles alongside Gustav Fröhlich ...
*
Robert Leffler
Robert Leffler (9 January 1866 – 15 March 1940) was a German actor, film director and opera singer (bass).
Selected filmography
* '' The Haunted Castle'' (1921)
* ''The Fear of Women'' (1921)
* '' Rose of the Asphalt Streets'' (1922)
* ''A D ...
*
Fritz Odemar
Fritz Odemar (13 January 1890 – 6 June 1955) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 150 films between 1927 and 1955. He was born in Hannover, Germany and died in Munich, Germany. Odemar's father was the actor Fritz Odemar Sr. (K ...
*
Livio Pavanelli
Livio Cesare Pavanelli (7 September 1881 – 29 April 1958) was an Italian film actor.
Pavanelli was born in Copparo, Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy and died in Rome in 1958 at age 76.
Selected filmography
* ''Mariute'' (1918)
*'' Fabiola'' (1 ...
*
Ernő Verebes
Ernő Verebes (born Ernst Weiss, December 6, 1902 – June 13, 1971) was a Hungarian-American actor who began his career in Hungarian silent films in 1915. During his film career he worked and lived in Hungary, Germany and in the United States. ...
*
Wolfgang Zilzer
Wolfgang Zilzer (January 20, 1901 – June 26, 1991) was a German-American stage and film actor, often under the stage name Paul Andor.
Biography
Zilzer was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, to German-Jewish emigrant Max Zilzer, who was employed at the ...
References
Bibliography
*Prawer, S.S. ''Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910–1933''. Berghahn Books, 2005.
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1929 films
Films of the Weimar Republic
1929 drama films
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Films directed by Jacob Fleck
Films directed by Luise Fleck
German black-and-white films
Silent drama films
1920s German films
Films shot at Johannisthal Studios
1920s German-language films
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