''The Love of a Thief'' (German: ''Brigantenliebe'') is a 1920 German silent

adventure film An adventure film is a form of adventure fiction, and is a genre of film. Subgenres of adventure films include swashbuckler films, pirate films, and survival films. Adventure films may also be combined with other film genres such as action, an ...

directed by

Martin Hartwig Martin may refer to: Places * Martin City (disambiguation) * Martin County (disambiguation) * Martin Township (disambiguation) Antarctica * Martin Peninsula, Marie Byrd Land * Port Martin, Adelie Land * Point Martin, South Orkney Islands Austral ...

and starring

Ellen Richter Ellen Richter (born Käthe Weiß; 21 July 1891 – 11 September 1969) was an Austrian-Jewish film actress of the silent era. She was married to Willi Wolff, who directed many of her films. Ellen Richter composed her own production company to creat ...

Hans Adalbert Schlettow Hans Adalbert Schlettow (11 June 1888 – 30 April 1945) was a German film actor. Schlettow appeared in around a hundred and sixty films during his career, the majority during the silent era. Among his best-known film roles was ''Hagen von Tronje' ...

and

Emil Rameau Emil Rameau (born Emil Pulvermacher; 13 August 1878 – 9 September 1957) was a German film and theatre actor, and for many years the deputy artistic director at the Schiller Theater. He appeared in nearly 100 films between 1915 and 1949. Lif ...

.Grange p.81 The film's sets were designed by the

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Jack Winter.

Cast

as Fianetta *

as Bandit Carlo *

Julius Falkenstein Julius Falkenstein (25 February 1879 – 9 December 1933) was a German stage and film actor of the silent era. He appeared in more than 180 films between 1914 and 1933. Falkenstein was Jewish, but secured a special permit to continue making ...

as Piselli *

Hugo Flink Hugo Flink (16 August 1879 – 2 May 1947) was an Austrian stage and film actor. Flink was one of the earliest actors to play Sherlock Holmes on screen. Flink was born in Vienna and died in Berlin. Selected filmography * '' The Onyx Head'' (1 ...

* Reinhold Köstlin * Artur Menzel *

Poldi Müller Poldi or Poldy may refer to: __NOTOC__ People Nickname * Prince Leopold of Bavaria (born 1943), Bavarian prince and former race car driver * Leopold Bentley, born Leopold Bloch-Bauer, a co-founder of what became Canfor, a Canadian integrated forest ...

as Bianca *

as Castrozzo * Tilly Wötzel as Castrozzo's daughter

References

Bibliography

* Grange, William. ''Cultural Chronicle of the Weimar Republic''. Scarecrow Press, 2008.

External links

* 1920 films Films of the Weimar Republic Films directed by Martin Hartwig German silent feature films UFA GmbH films 1920 adventure films German adventure films Films set in Italy German black-and-white films Silent adventure films 1920s German films 1920s German-language films {{Germany-silent-film-stub