''The Burgomaster of Stilemonde'' is a 1929 British silent

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directed by

George Banfield George Banfield (1888–1963) was a British film producer and director. He first entered the film industry in 1908. During the mid-1920s he began producing series of short films during the Slump of 1924. In 1926 he formed a new company British ...

and starring John Martin Harvey,

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and Robert Andrews. It was made at

Walthamstow Studios Walthamstow Studios was a British film studio located in Walthamstow, London which operated between 1914 and 1930. Two earlier studios had previously existed in Walthamstow. It was the base of Broadwest films for a number of years, which also u ...

and on location in

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. It was based on the 1918 play ''Le Bourgmestre de Stilmonde '' by

Maurice Maeterlinck Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (29 August 1862 – 6 May 1949), also known as Count (or Comte) Maeterlinck from 1932, was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in ...

. Like the play, it portrays German atrocities during the First World War

occupation of Belgium Occupation commonly refers to: *Occupation (human activity), or job, one's role in society, often a regular activity performed for payment *Occupation (protest), political demonstration by holding public or symbolic spaces *Military occupation, th ...

. It was well received by critics.

Cast

* John Martin Harvey as Cyrille van Belle (The Burgomaster) *

as Isabelle Hilmer * Robert Andrews as Lt. Otto Hilmer * John F. Hamilton as Odilion van Belle *

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as Baron von Rochow * Wilfred Shine as Claus * A. B. Imeson as Capt. Karl von Shernberg * Oswald Lingard as Father de Coninck * Kinsey Peile as Sheriff Vermandel *

Mickey Brantford Mickey Brantford (26 March 1911 – 18 October 1984) was an English actor and film production manager . Mickey Brantford was born Michael Richard Henry Comerford into a theatrical family, in London. He began his career in the silent film era as ...

as Flores *

Adeline Hayden Coffin Adeline Maria Elisabeth Hayden Coffin (née de Leuw; 20 June 1862 – 31 March 1939) was a German-born British actress. In an advertisement for her professional availability in 1921 she described herself, or was described by her agent, as suita ...

* C. V. France

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* 1929 films 1920s war drama films British war drama films Films based on works by Maurice Maeterlinck Films directed by George Banfield British silent feature films Films shot at Walthamstow Studios Films set in Belgium British World War I films Films set in the 1910s Belgium in World War I British black-and-white films 1929 drama films 1920s English-language films 1920s British films Silent war drama films {{WWI-film-stub