''The Convict from Istanbul'' (German: ''Der Sträfling aus Stambul'') is a 1929
German
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silent drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super ...
directed by
Gustav Ucicky
Gustav Ucicky (6 July 1899 – 27 April 1961) was an Austrian film director, screenwriter, and cinematographer. He was one of the more successful directors in Austria and Germany from the 1930s through to the early 1960s. His work covered a wid ...
and starring
Heinrich George
Georg August Friedrich Hermann Schulz (9 October 1893 – 25 September 1946), better known as Heinrich George (), was a German stage and film actor.
Career Weimar Republic
George is noted for having spooked the young Bertolt Brecht in his first ...
,
Betty Amann
Philippine Amann (10 March 1905 – 2 or 3 August 1990), known professionally as Betty Amann, was a German-American film actress. Born to American parents in Germany, she began her acting career in the United States with the film ''The Kick-Of ...
and
Paul Hörbiger
Paul Hörbiger (29 April 1894 – 5 March 1981) was an Austrian theatre and film actor.
Life and work
Paul Hörbiger was born in the Hungarian capital Budapest, then part of Austria-Hungary, the son of engineer Hanns Hörbiger, founder of the ...
.
[Prawer p.84] It was shot at the
Babelsberg Studios
Babelsberg Film Studio (german: Filmstudio Babelsberg), located in Potsdam-Babelsberg outside Berlin, Germany, is the second oldest large-scale film studio in the world only preceded by the Danish Nordisk Film (est. 1906), producing films since ...
in
Berlin
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. The film's
art direction is by
Heinz Fenchel
Heinz Fenchel (1906–1988) was a German art director, who designed the sets for a number of films in Weimar Germany and Czechoslovakia. He worked on several films with the director Pál Fejös.Büttner p.231-33 The Jewish Fenchel later emigrated ...
and
Jacek Rotmil
Jacek Rotmil (1888–1944) was a Russian-born art director and production designer who worked on 100 films during his career Following the First World War, Rotmil entered the booming German film industry and worked prolifically until 1933. Follo ...
.
Cast
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Heinrich George
Georg August Friedrich Hermann Schulz (9 October 1893 – 25 September 1946), better known as Heinrich George (), was a German stage and film actor.
Career Weimar Republic
George is noted for having spooked the young Bertolt Brecht in his first ...
as Thomas Zezi
*
Betty Amann
Philippine Amann (10 March 1905 – 2 or 3 August 1990), known professionally as Betty Amann, was a German-American film actress. Born to American parents in Germany, she began her acting career in the United States with the film ''The Kick-Of ...
as Hilde Wollwarth
*
Paul Hörbiger
Paul Hörbiger (29 April 1894 – 5 March 1981) was an Austrian theatre and film actor.
Life and work
Paul Hörbiger was born in the Hungarian capital Budapest, then part of Austria-Hungary, the son of engineer Hanns Hörbiger, founder of the ...
as Vlastos
*
Willi Forst
Willi Forst, born Wilhelm Anton Frohs (7 April 1903 – 11 August 1980) was an Austrian actor, screenwriter, film director, film producer and singer. As a debonair actor he was a darling of the German-speaking film audiences, as a director, one ...
as Manopulos
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Trude Hesterberg
Trude Hesterberg (2 May 1892 – 31 August 1967) was a German film actress. She appeared in 89 films between 1917 and 1964.
Selected filmography
* ''The Rosentopf Case'' (1918)
* '' The Story of a Maid'' (1921)
* ''Fridericus Rex'' (1922)
...
as Jola Zezi
*
Lotte Lorring
Lotte Lorring (born Erna Else Charlotte Budzinski; 6 December 1893 – 20 March 1939) was a German stage and film actress and operetta singer.Chandler p.272
Death
Lorring died on 20 March 1939, aged 45, in Berlin, Germany.
Filmography
* '' Um ...
as Dolly
*
Frida Richard
Frida Richard (born Friederike Raithel, 1 November 1873 – 12 September 1946) was an Austrian actress.
Selected filmography
* '' The Sin of Helga Arndt'' (1916)
* '' The Queen's Love Letter'' (1916)
* '' The Marriage of Luise Rohrbach'' (1917)
...
as Zimmerwirtin
*
Paul Rehkopf
Paul Anton Heinrich Rehkopf (21 May 1872 – 29 June 1949) was a German actor.
He was born in Braunschweig and died in Braunschweig, Germany
Selected filmography
* ''Diary of a Lost Woman'' (1918)
* ''Film Kathi'' (1918)
* ''Lorenzo Burghardt'' ...
as Winkeladvokat
*
Erich Moeller
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as Polizist
*
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 ...
*
Arthur Wellin
Arthur Wellin (born 31 October 1880, date of death unknown) was a German film director, actor, screenwriter and producer. He directed 18 films between 1916 and 1927. He also appeared in 11 films between 1915 and 1933. He was born in Berlin, Germ ...
References
Bibliography
* Prawer, S.S. ''Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933''. Berghahn Books, 2005.
External links
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1929 films
1929 drama films
Films of the Weimar Republic
German silent feature films
German drama films
Films directed by Gustav Ucicky
UFA GmbH films
Films with screenplays by Franz Schulz
German black-and-white films
Silent drama films
Films shot at Babelsberg Studios
1920s German films
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