''The Last Night'' (german: Revolutionshochzeit) is a 1928 German silent

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directed by A.W. Sandberg and starring

Diomira Jacobini Diomira Jacobini (25 May 1899 – 13 September 1959) was an Italian film actress of the silent era.Goble p.475 She was the younger sister of actress Maria Jacobini. Selected filmography * '' The Shadow of Her Past'' (1915) * '' The Rose of Grana ...

Gösta Ekman Hans Gösta Gustaf Ekman (; 28 July 1939 – 1 April 2017) was a Swedish actor, comedian, and director. Career Ekman was born in Stockholm, Sweden, and was the son of the director Hasse Ekman and Agneta (née Wrangel). Ekman represented ...

and Karina Bell.Qvist & von Bagh p. 68 Produced and distributed by

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, it was shot at the company's

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. The film's sets were designed by the art director Hans Jacoby.

Cast

as Alaine *

as Marc-Anton * Karina Bell as Leontine *

Walter Rilla Walter Rilla (22 August 1894 – 21 November 1980) was a German film actor of Jewish descent.Siegbert Salomon Prawer, ''Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933'', Berghahn Books (2007), pg. 213 He appea ...

as Ernest *

Fritz Kortner Fritz Kortner (born Fritz Nathan Kohn; 12 May 1892 – 22 July 1970) was an Austrian stage and film actor and theatre director. Life and career Kortner was born in Vienna as Fritz Nathan Kohn into a Jewish family. He studied at the Vienna A ...

as Montaloup *

Paul Henckels Paul Henckels (9 September 1885 – 27 May 1967) was a German film and stage actor. He appeared in more than 230 films between 1921 and 1965. Paul Henckels had started his acting career on the stage in the 1900s. He was well known for his e ...

as Prosper *

Ernst Behmer Ernst Behmer (22 December 1875 – 26 February 1938) was a prolific German stage and film actor who appeared in more than a hundred films during the silent and early sound eras. Behmer was born in Königsberg, East-Prussia, Germany (now Kalin ...

References

Bibliography

* Qvist, Per Olov & von Bagh, Peter. ''Guide to the Cinema of Sweden and Finland''. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000.

External links

* 1928 films Films of the Weimar Republic German silent feature films Films directed by A. W. Sandberg German films based on plays French Revolution films Terra Film films 1920s historical films German historical films Films set in the 18th century German black-and-white films 1920s German films Films shot at Terra Studios {{1920s-Germany-film-stub