''The Hanseatics'' (german: Hanseaten) is a 1925 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
Gerhard Lamprecht
Gerhard Lamprecht (6 October 1897 – 4 May 1974) was a German film director, screenwriter and film historian. He directed 63 films between 1920 and 1958. He also wrote for 26 films between 1918 and 1958.
Life and career
Lamprecht was fasci ...
and starring
Tamara Karsavina
Tamara Platonovna Karsavina (russian: Тамара Платоновна Карсавина; 10 March 1885 – 26 May 1978) was a Russian prima ballerina, renowned for her beauty, who was a principal artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and l ...
,
Fritz Alberti
Fritz Alberti (born Friedrich Wilhelm Alberti; 22 October 1877 – 15 September 1954) was a German actor.
Selected filmography
* ''People in Ecstasy'' (1921)
* '' The Other Woman'' (1924)
* ''The Blackguard'' (1925)
* '' Ship in Distress'' (1925 ...
and
Hermine Sterler
Minna Stern (20 March 1894 – 25 May 1982), known professionally as Hermine Sterler, was a German-American actress whose career spanned both the silent and the talkie film eras on two continents.
Career
Sterler, who appeared in several Hol ...
.
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The film's sets were designed by the
art director Otto Moldenhauer.
Cast
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Tamara Karsavina
Tamara Platonovna Karsavina (russian: Тамара Платоновна Карсавина; 10 March 1885 – 26 May 1978) was a Russian prima ballerina, renowned for her beauty, who was a principal artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and l ...
*
Fritz Alberti
Fritz Alberti (born Friedrich Wilhelm Alberti; 22 October 1877 – 15 September 1954) was a German actor.
Selected filmography
* ''People in Ecstasy'' (1921)
* '' The Other Woman'' (1924)
* ''The Blackguard'' (1925)
* '' Ship in Distress'' (1925 ...
*
Hermine Sterler
Minna Stern (20 March 1894 – 25 May 1982), known professionally as Hermine Sterler, was a German-American actress whose career spanned both the silent and the talkie film eras on two continents.
Career
Sterler, who appeared in several Hol ...
*
Aribert Wäscher
*
Eduard Rothauser
Eduard Rothauser (1876–1956) was an Austrian-born German actor.
Selected filmography
* '' The Man in the Cellar'' (1914)
* '' The Princess of Urbino'' (1919)
* '' Nobody Knows'' (1920)
* ''The Graveyard of the Living'' (1921)
* '' The Mahar ...
*
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)
...
*
Renate Brausewetter
*
Werner Pittschau
Werner Pittschau (24 March 1902 – 28 October 1928) was a German theater and film actor of the silent film era. He was a leading men in 30 films during the 1920s, but his career was cut short by his death in an automobile accident, aged 26.
Pit ...
*
Andreas Bull
*
Rudolf Lettinger
Rudolf Lettinger (26 October 1865 in Hamburg – 21 March 1937 in Berlin-Schöneberg) was a German stage and film actor. He made his stage debut in 1883 when he played the role of Kosinsky in Friedrich Schiller's drama ''The Robbers''. Some of ...
*
Paul Bildt
Paul Hermann Bildt (19 May 1885 – 13 March 1957) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 180 films between 1910 and 1956. He was born and died in Berlin, Germany.
Selected filmography
* ''Devil in Silk'' (1956)
* '' Ich suche D ...
*
Gustav Rodegg
*
Georg John
Georg John (born Georg Jacobsohn; 23 July 1879 – 18 November 1941) was a German stage and film actor.
Early life
Georg Jacobsohn was born into a Jewish household in Schmiegel, Province of Posen, Imperial Germany.
Career
John began his c ...
*
Maria Forescu
Maria Forescu (15 January 1875 28 October 1947) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian opera singer and film actress. During the silent and talkies era of the German cinema, she appeared in several movies as a supporting actress. When Adolf Hitl ...
*
Hans Merkwitz
References
Bibliography
* Grange, William. ''Cultural Chronicle of the Weimar Republic''. Scarecrow Press, 2008.
External links
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1925 films
Films of the Weimar Republic
Films directed by Gerhard Lamprecht
German silent feature films
Films set in Hamburg
National Film films
German black-and-white films
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