''Poor Jenny'' (German:''Die arme Jenny'') is a 1912 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

Urban Gad Peter Urban Bruun Gad (12 February 1879 – 26 December 1947) was a Danish film director, stage actor, screenwriter, and author. He directed 40 films between 1910 and 1927. His wife Asta Nielsen starred in 30 of his films, also in his début the ...

and starring Asta Nielsen,

Leo Peukert Leonhard "Leo" Peukert (26 August 1885 – 6 January 1944) was a prolific German film actor and film director, appearing in more than a hundred and fifty productions between 1910 and his death in 1944. While occasionally he played a leading role i ...

and

Emil Albes Friedrich Emil Albes (30 October 1861 – 22 March 1923) was a German actor and film director of the silent era.Giesen p.171 Selected filmography * ''The Traitress'' (1911) * '' Poor Jenny'' (1912) * '' The Dance of Death'' (1912) * '' Veritas ...

.Kapczynski & Richardson p.47 The film's sets were designed by the art director

Robert A. Dietrich Robert A. Dietrich (28 March 1889 – 8 September 1947) was a German art director.Scheunemann p.277 He designed the sets for more than a hundred films during his career. Selected filmography * '' The Student of Prague'' (1913) * '' The Path of De ...

Cast

* Asta Nielsen as Jenny Schmidt *

as Eduard Reinhold *

as Werkmeister Schmidt * Hans Staufen as Kellner Fritz Hellmann * Paula Helmert as Frau Schmidt * Ferdinand Richter as Kommis * Berhold Weiss as Kellner *

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 ...

* Bruno Lopinski * Helene Voß

References

Bibliography

* Jennifer M. Kapczynski & Michael D. Richardson. ''A New History of German Cinema''.

External links

* 1912 films Films of the German Empire Films directed by Urban Gad German silent short films German black-and-white films 1910s German films {{1910s-Germany-film-stub