''Semi-Silk'' (german: Halbseide) is a 1925 German
silent film
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directed by
Richard Oswald
Richard Oswald (5 November 1880 – 11 September 1963) was an Austrian film director, producer, screenwriter, and father of German-American film director Gerd Oswald.
Early career
Richard Oswald, born in Vienna as Richard W. Ornstein, began h ...
and starring
Bernd Aldor
Bernd is a Low German short form of the given name Bernhard (English Bernard).
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* Bernd Eichinger (1949–2011), ...
,
Mary Parker and
Valeska Stock
Valeska Stock (1887–1966) was a German actress who appeared in around thirty films in supporting roles. Stock originally trained as a ballet dancer in her native Breslau, before moving into theatre and then into the film industry. She played th ...
.
[Bock & Bergfelder p. 155]
The film's
art direction
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was by
Heinrich Richter
Heinrich Richter (1884–1981) was a German painter and art director.Soister p.122 He designed the sets for more than a hundred films during his career.
Selected filmography
* ''The Confessions of the Green Mask'' (1916)
* ''The Sensational Tr ...
.
Cast
*
Bernd Aldor
Bernd is a Low German short form of the given name Bernhard (English Bernard).
List of persons with given name Bernd
The following people share the name Bernd.
*Bernd Brückler (born 1981), Austrian hockey player
* Bernd Eichinger (1949–2011), ...
as Dr. Gonzales / Dr. Ranzau
*
Mary Parker as Liane, Frau Gonzales
*
Valeska Stock
Valeska Stock (1887–1966) was a German actress who appeared in around thirty films in supporting roles. Stock originally trained as a ballet dancer in her native Breslau, before moving into theatre and then into the film industry. She played th ...
as Frau Weber
*
Mary Kid
Mary Kid (born Marie Anna Albertine Keul; 8 August 1901 – 29 October 1988) was a German actress. She appeared in more than forty films during the Weimar Republic, but her career came to an end in the early sound era.
Selected filmography
* '' H ...
as Kitty
*
Bertl Byllardo as Rita, Kittys Tochter
*
Karl Beckersachs
Karl Beckersachs (1886–1951) was a German stage and film actor.Goble p.481 He is sometimes credited as Carl Beckersachs.
Selected filmography
* ''His Majesty the Hypochondriac'' (1918)
* ''Midnight'' (1918)
* '' In the Castle by the Lake'' (191 ...
as Kurt / Arthur von Hiller
*
Hans Albers
Hans Philipp August Albers (22 September 1891 – 24 July 1960) was a German actor and singer. He was the biggest male movie star in Germany between 1930 and 1960 and one of the most popular German actors of the twentieth century.
Early life
...
as Alex Bums / Pumm
*
Kurt Gerron
Kurt Gerron (11 May 1897 – 28 October 1944) was a German History of the Jews in Germany, Jewish actor and film director. He and his wife, Olga were murdered in the Holocaust.
Life
Born Kurt Gerson into a well-off merchant family in Berlin, he ...
as Willi Krach, ein Ringer
*
Fritz Kampers
Fritz Kampers (14 July 1891 – 1 September 1950) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 250 films between 1913 and 1950.
Early life
Fritz Kampers was the son of a Munich hotel owner, spent his early childhood in Garmisch-Partenk ...
as Paul Körner / Hart, Ingenieur
References
Bibliography
* Hans-Michael Bock and Tim Bergfelder. ''The Concise Cinegraph: An Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009.
External links
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1925 films
Films of the Weimar Republic
German silent feature films
Films directed by Richard Oswald
German black-and-white films
1920s German films
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