''The Green Alley'' (German: ''Die Rothausgasse'') is a 1928
German
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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
Richard Oswald and starring
Grete Mosheim,
Gustav Fröhlich
Gustav Fröhlich (21 March 1902 – 22 December 1987) was a German actor and film director. He landed secondary roles in a number of films and plays before landing his breakthrough role of Freder Fredersen in Fritz Lang's 1927 film ''Metropoli ...
and
Marija Leiko
Marija Leiko (14 August 1887 – 3 February 1938), also known as Marija Leyko, was a Latvian stage and silent film actress in Europe, especially popular in Latvia, Germany,[Universal Pictures
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and was based on the novel ''Der heilige Skarabäus'' by
Else Jerusalem. It was shot at the
Staaken Studios in
Berlin
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. The
art direction was overseen by
Gustav A. Knauer
Gustav A. Knauer (1886–1950) was a German art director.Gemünden p.171 He designed the sets of more than a hundred films during his career.
Selected filmography
* '' The White Roses of Ravensberg'' (1919)
* '' The Flight into Marriage'' (1922)
...
and
Willy Schiller
Willy Schiller (11 August 1899 – 17 July 1973) was a German art director.Allan & Sandford p.3 In the later part of his career he worked for DEFA, the East German state-controlled film studio.
Selected filmography
* '' Radio Magic'' (1927)
* ' ...
.
Cast
*
Grete Mosheim as Milada Rezek
*
Gustav Fröhlich
Gustav Fröhlich (21 March 1902 – 22 December 1987) was a German actor and film director. He landed secondary roles in a number of films and plays before landing his breakthrough role of Freder Fredersen in Fritz Lang's 1927 film ''Metropoli ...
as Gustav Brenner
*
Marija Leiko
Marija Leiko (14 August 1887 – 3 February 1938), also known as Marija Leyko, was a Latvian stage and silent film actress in Europe, especially popular in Latvia, Germany,[Else Heims
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as Frau Goldschneider
*
Camilla von Hollay
Camilla von Hollay (born Kamilla Borbála Hollay; 11 July 1899 – 9 February 1967) was a Hungarian film actress of the silent era. She appeared in more than 40 films between 1917 and 1930. She was born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary and die ...
as Fritzi, Wirtschafterin
*
Hilde Jennings as Helenka
*
Paul Otto
Paul Otto Schlesinger (8 February 1878 – 25 or 30 November 1943) was a German film actor and director. Born in Berlin, he began a qualification as a retail merchant and made his actor's debut at the age of 17. Otto worked at Theaters in ...
as Dr. Brenner
*
Oskar Homolka
Oskar Homolka (August 12, 1898 – January 27, 1978) was an Austrian film and theatre actor, who went on to work in Germany, Britain and America. Both his voice and his appearance fitted him for roles as communist spies or Soviet officials, for w ...
as Dr. Horner
*
Betty Astor
Betty Astor (21 April 1905 – 1972) was a German film actress. She was born Berta Baesel in Germany.
Selected filmography
* ''Upstairs and Downstairs'' (1925)
* '' Should We Be Silent?'' (1926)
* ''The Transformation of Dr. Bessel'' (1927)
...
as Miladas Freundin
*
Lotte Stein
Lotte Stein (1894–1982) was a German actress of the stage and screen. Of Jewish descent, she fled to the United States via Czechoslovakia and Portugal, and arrived at the Port of New York on board the S/S ''Mouzinho'' in June 1941.
Selected fi ...
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Hermann Picha
Hermann Picha (20 March 1865 – 7 June 1936) was a German stage and film actor. Picha was extremely prolific, appearing in over 300 short and feature films during the silent and early sound eras. Picha played a mixture of lead and supporting ...
*
Hans Brausewetter
Hans Brausewetter (27 May 1899 – 29 April 1945) was a German stage and film actor of the silent era. He appeared in more than 130 films between 1922 and 1945. He appeared in the 1923 film '' The Treasure'', which was directed by Georg Wil ...
References
Bibliography
* Weniger, Kay. Es wird im Leben dir mehr genommen als gegeben ...' Lexikon der aus Deutschland und Österreich emigrierten Filmschaffenden 1933 bis 1945''. ACABUS Verlag, 2011.
External links
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1928 films
Films of the Weimar Republic
German silent feature films
Films directed by Richard Oswald
Films based on Austrian novels
Films with screenplays by Franz Schulz
German black-and-white films
Films shot at Staaken Studios
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