''The Last Fort'' (german: Das letzte Fort) is a 1928 German silent

war film War film is a film genre concerned with warfare, typically about naval, air, or land battles, with combat scenes central to the drama. It has been strongly associated with the 20th century. The fateful nature of battle scenes means that war fi ...

Koepnick p. 68 directed by

Curtis Bernhardt Curtis Bernhardt (15 April 1899 – 22 February 1981) was a Jewish film director born in Worms, Germany, under the name Kurt Bernhardt. He trained as an actor in Germany, and performed on the stage, before starting as a film director in 1924, wi ...

and starring

Rolla Norman Edouard Charles "Rolla" Norman (1889–1971) was a French stage and film actor. Selected filmography * ''The Assassination of the Duke of Guise'' (1908) * '' The Advocate'' (1925) * ''The Last Fort'' (1928) * '' The Vein'' (1928) * '' The Great ...

Maria Paudler Maria Paudler (20 June 1903 – 17 August 1990) was an Austro-Hungarian-born German actress. Selected filmography * '' Madame Wants No Children'' (1926) * ''The Young Man from the Ragtrade'' (1926) * '' The Violet Eater'' (1926) * ''One Does No ...

and

Albert Steinrück Albert Steinrück (20 May 1872 – 10 February 1929) was a German stage and film actor of the silent film, silent era. He appeared in more than 80 films between 1910 and 1929. He starred in the 1923 film ''The Treasure (1923 film), The Treas ...

Cast

as Major Leblanc *

as Yvonne, seine Tochter *

as Lensky, Kommandant *

Fritz Odemar Fritz Odemar (13 January 1890 – 6 June 1955) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 150 films between 1927 and 1955. He was born in Hannover, Germany and died in Munich, Germany. Odemar's father was the actor Fritz Odemar Sr. (K ...

as Lieutenant Brand *

Heinrich George Georg August Friedrich Hermann Schulz (9 October 1893 – 25 September 1946), better known as Heinrich George (), was a German stage and film actor. Career Weimar Republic George is noted for having spooked the young Bertolt Brecht in his first ...

as Croff *

Alexander Granach Alexander Granach (April 18, 1890 – March 14, 1945) was a German-Austrian actor in the 1920s and 1930s who emigrated to the United States in 1938. Life and career Granach was born Schaje Granoch in Werbowitz (Wierzbowce/Werbiwci) (Austri ...

as Gestino * Alfred Gördel as Capitän Andrieux

References

Bibliography

* Koepnick, Lutz Peter. ''The Dark Mirror: German Cinema Between Hitler and Hollywood''. University of California Press, 2002. * Prawer, S.S. ''Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910–1933''. Berghahn Books, 2005.

External links

* 1928 films Films of the Weimar Republic 1928 war films German silent feature films German war films Films directed by Curtis Bernhardt Films set in Syria German black-and-white films Films produced by Seymour Nebenzal Silent war films 1920s German films 1920s German-language films {{war-film-stub