''The Duke of Reichstadt'' (german: Der Herzog von Reichstadt) is a 1931 French-German
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drama film
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directed by
Viktor Tourjansky
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and starring Walter Edthofer,
Lien Deyers
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Early life
Lien Deyers was born Nicolina Spanier in Amsterdam on 5 November 1909, the daughter of N ...
and
Grete Natzler
Grete Natzler (19 June 1906 – 10 June 1999) was an Austrian actress and operatic soprano. Born in
Vienna, she was the daughter of actress Lilli Meißner and actor and opera singer Leopold Natzler (1860–1926). Two of her younger sisters we ...
. It is the German-language version of the French film '' The Eaglet'', based on the play ''
L'Aiglon
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'' by
Edmond Rostand
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. It takes its name from the formal Austrian title of
Napoleon II
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, mother = Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma
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, birth_place = Tuileries Palace, Paris, French Empire
...
, its central character.
It was shot at the
Joinville Studios
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A second studio was added to the original ...
in
Paris
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Vienna
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.Klaus p.113 The film's sets were designed by the
art director
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It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...
Serge Piménoff
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Selected filmography
* '' Nights of Princes'' (1930)
* '' The Unknown Singer'' (1931)
* '' Sailor's Son ...
Lien Deyers
Lien Deyers (formerly Nicolina Dijjers Spanier, born Nicolina Spanier; 5 November 1909 – after March 1982) was a Dutch actress based in Germany.
Early life
Lien Deyers was born Nicolina Spanier in Amsterdam on 5 November 1909, the daughter of N ...
Grete Natzler
Grete Natzler (19 June 1906 – 10 June 1999) was an Austrian actress and operatic soprano. Born in
Vienna, she was the daughter of actress Lilli Meißner and actor and opera singer Leopold Natzler (1860–1926). Two of her younger sisters we ...
as
Fanny Elssler
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Life and career
She was born in Gumpendorf, a neighborhood of Vienna. Her father Johann Florian Elssler was a second ge ...
*
Alfred Abel
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as Hofrat Gentz
* Kitty Aschenbach as Herzogin v. Parma
* Margarethe Hruby as Gräfin Camerata
*
Eugen Klöpfer
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Early life
Born to Karl Klöpfer and his wife Karoline, née Hörsch, Eugen attended the Realschule ("secondary school") in Heilbro ...
as Grenadier Flambeau
*
Erwin Kalser Erwin Kalser (22 February 1883 — 26 March 1958) was a German-JewishSiegbert Salomon Prawer, ''Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933'', Berghahn Books (2007), p. 213 stage and film actor, best remembered as ...
Ekkehard Arendt
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as Major v. Prokesch
*
Jaro Fürth
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Early life
Fürth was born to Jewish parents in Prague.Kaiser Franz I.
*
Eugen Jensen
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as Graf Sedlnitzky
*
Eugen Burg
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Burg was born Eugen Hirschburg into a Jewish family, but later converted to Protestantism. He was ban ...
as Graf Bombelles
*
Kurt Ehrle
Kurt Ehrle (26 May 1884 – 17 April 1967) was a German stage and film actor.Parrill p.359
Selected filmography
* '' Put to the Test'' (1918)
* '' Agnes Arnau and Her Three Suitors'' (1918)
* ''Baccarat'' (1919)
* '' Satan'' (1920)
* ''The Woman ...
as Marschall Marmont
*
John Mylong
John Mylong (September 27, 1892 – September 8, 1975), also known as Jack Mylong-Münz, born Adolf Heinrich Münz, was an Austrian actor who later settled in the United States.
Selected filmography
* ''Der heilige Hass, 1. Teil'' (1921) - Rabo ...
as Tiburce de Lorget
*
Hans Heinrich von Twardowski
Hans Heinrich von Twardowski (5 May 1898 – 19 November 1958) was a German film actor.
Career in Germany
Twardowski was born in Stettin, Germany (now Szczecin in Poland). He made his first film appearance in the 1920 Robert Wiene-directed horr ...
*
Alfred Beierle
Alfred Beierle (4 June 1885 – 16 March 1950) was a German stage and film actor.Alpi p.346
Selected filmography
* '' The League of Three'' (1929)
* ''The Flute Concert of Sanssouci'' (1930)
* '' The Tiger Murder Case'' (1930)
* '' Oh Those Glori ...
* Gertrud Kanitz
References
Bibliography
* Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
* Klaus, Ulrich J. ''Deutsche Tonfilme: Jahrgang 1931''. Klaus-Archiv, 1988.