''The Age of Seventeen'' (german: Die Siebzehnjährigen) is a 1929 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 Georg Asagaroff and starring Grete Mosheim,

Hans Adalbert Schlettow Hans Adalbert Schlettow (11 June 1888 – 30 April 1945) was a German film actor. Schlettow appeared in around a hundred and sixty films during his career, the majority during the silent era. Among his best-known film roles was ''Hagen von Tronje' ...

and Martin Herzberg.Kasten p. 146 It was shot at the

Terra Studios The Terra Studios or Marienfelde Studios were film studios located in the Berlin suburb of Marienfelde. The studios were originally a glasshouse constructed in 1913 by the early company Eiko Film, controlled by the producer Franz Vogel who ha ...

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and List of cities in Germany by population, largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's List of cities in the European Union by population within ci ...

. The film's art direction was by Hans Jacoby.

Cast

* Grete Mosheim as Erika Sörensen *

as Werner von Lingen * Martin Herzberg as Gert von Lingen * Vera Baranovskaya as Annemarie von Lingen *

Eduard von Winterstein Eduard Clemens Franz Anna Freiherr von Wangenheim (1 August 1871 – 22 July 1961), known as Eduard von Winterstein, was an Austrian-German film actor who appeared in over one hundred fifty German films during the silent and sound eras. He was ...

as Erik Sörensen * Carl Balhaus as Gerts Freund Martin *

Gerhard Ritterband Gerhard Ritterband (1904–1959) was a German film actor.Hardt p.223 Selected filmography * '' The Doll'' (1919) * '' The Princess of the Nile'' (1920) * '' Va banque'' (1920) * '' A Day on Mars'' (1921) * '' Four Around a Woman'' (1921) * '' The ...

as Gerts Freund Hans * Eva Speyer as Mutter Schwarz * Manfred Voss as Primaner Schwarz * Heinrich Gotho

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* 1929 films Films of the Weimar Republic Films directed by Georg Asagaroff German silent feature films Terra Film films German black-and-white films Films shot at Terra Studios {{Germany-silent-film-stub