''The Haunting of Castle Kitay'' (German: ''Spuk auf Schloß Kitay'') is a 1920 German
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
Paul Legband and featuring
Georg H. Schnell
Georg Heinrich Schnell (11 April 1878 – 31 March 1951) was a German actor who remains perhaps best-known for his role as shipowner Harding in ''Nosferatu, Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens'' (1922). Georg appeared in over one hundred fi ...
,
Gustav Adolf Semler
Gustav Adolf Semler (14 March 1885 – 24 February 1968) was a German stage and film actor of the silent era. He appeared in 41 films between 1918 and 1929.
Selected filmography
* ''Alraune, die Henkerstochter, genannt die rote Hanne'' (1 ...
and
Kurt Gerron
Kurt Gerron (11 May 1897 – 28 October 1944) was a German Jewish actor and film director. He and his wife, Olga were murdered in the Holocaust.
Life
Born Kurt Gerson into a well-off merchant family in Berlin, he studied medicine before being ca ...
. It marked the start of Gerron's career in feature films and he went on to be a popular screen comedian.
[Kosta p.172]
Cast
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Edward Eyseneck as Polizeileutnant Watson
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Kurt Gerron
Kurt Gerron (11 May 1897 – 28 October 1944) was a German Jewish actor and film director. He and his wife, Olga were murdered in the Holocaust.
Life
Born Kurt Gerson into a well-off merchant family in Berlin, he studied medicine before being ca ...
as Diener Flipp
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Johanna Mund as Lady Kitay
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Josef Peterhans as Fürst
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Lilly Rodewald as Lady Falcestone
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Georg H. Schnell
Georg Heinrich Schnell (11 April 1878 – 31 March 1951) was a German actor who remains perhaps best-known for his role as shipowner Harding in ''Nosferatu, Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens'' (1922). Georg appeared in over one hundred fi ...
as Lord Kitay
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Gustav Adolf Semler
Gustav Adolf Semler (14 March 1885 – 24 February 1968) was a German stage and film actor of the silent era. He appeared in 41 films between 1918 and 1929.
Selected filmography
* ''Alraune, die Henkerstochter, genannt die rote Hanne'' (1 ...
as Lord Falcestone
References
Bibliography
* Giesen, Rolf. ''The Nosferatu Story: The Seminal Horror Film, Its Predecessors and Its Enduring Legacy''. McFarland, 2019.
* Kosta, Barbara. ''Willing Seduction: The Blue Angel, Marlene Dietrich, and Mass Culture''. Berghahn Books, 2009.
External links
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1920 films
Films of the Weimar Republic
German silent feature films
German drama films
Films directed by Paul Legband
1920 drama films
German black-and-white films
Silent drama films
1920s German films
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