''The Knitting Needles'' (German: ''Die Stricknadeln'') is a 1916 German silent comedy film directed by

Hubert Moest Hubert Moest (December 3, 1877 to December 5, 1953) was a German film director, writer, producer, and actor. Early life and career Moest was the son of the sculptor Richard Moest. He attended high school in Cologne, an art school and worked as a ...

and Otto Rippert and starring Erich Kaiser-Titz, Käthe Haack and Olga Engl.Bock & Bergfelder p.433

Cast

* Erich Kaiser-Titz as August von Kotzebue / Baron * Käthe Haack as Junge Baronin * Olga Engl as Alte Baronin *

Reinhold Schünzel Reinhold Schünzel (7 November 1888 – 11 November 1954) was a German actor and director, active in both Germany and the United States. The son of a German father and a Jewish mother, he was born in St. Pauli, the poorest part of Hamburg. Despite ...

* Josef Coenen *

Lina Salten Lina (pronounced "Leena") is a feminine given name. Languages of origin include: English, Italian, Lithuanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Persian, Kurdish, Arabic. It is also the short form of a variety of names ending in -lina including Catalin ...

References

Bibliography

* Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009.

External links

* 1916 films Films of the German Empire German silent feature films Films directed by Otto Rippert Films directed by Hubert Moest German black-and-white films 1916 comedy films German comedy films German films based on plays Silent comedy films 1910s German films 1910s German-language films {{1910s-Germany-film-stub