''The Red Rider'' (German: ''Der rote Reiter'') is a 1935 German
drama film
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directed by
Rolf Randolf
Rolf Randolf (born Rudolf Zanbauer; 15 January 1878 – 29 June 1941) was an Austrian actor, film producer and director.
Selected filmography
Director
* ''Das Geheimnis der Santa Margherita'' (1921)
* ''Wallenstein'' (1925)
* '' What the Stones ...
and starring
Iván Petrovich,
Camilla Horn and
Friedrich Ulmer
Friedrich Ulmer (1877–1952) was a German film actor.
Partial filmography
* ''Das schwarze Amulett'' (1920)
* ''Der Totenkopf'' (1920)
* ''Die Hexe von Lolaruh'' (1920) as Waldläufer
* ''A Dying Nation'' (1922, part 1, 2)
* '' Helena'' (1924) ...
.
[Noack p.76] It is based on the 1922
novel of the same title by
Franz Xaver Kappus which had previously been made into a 1923
silent film
A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, when ...
.
The film's sets were designed by the
art director
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It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...
Wilhelm Depenau
Wilhelm Depenau (1884-1952) was a German art director.Reid p.99
Selected filmography
* ''The Most Beautiful Woman in the World'' (1924)
* ''Come Back, All Is Forgiven'' (1929)
* ''Viennese Waltz'' (1932)
* ''The Love Hotel'' (1933)
* '' The Doub ...
and
Erich Zander
Erich Zander (11 April 1905 – 15 April 1991) was a German field hockey player who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics and in the 1936 Summer Olympics. In 1928 he was a member of the German field hockey team, which won the bronze medal ...
.
Cast
*
Iván Petrovich as Rittmeister Otto von Wellisch
*
Camilla Horn as Hasia Nowrowska
*
Friedrich Ulmer
Friedrich Ulmer (1877–1952) was a German film actor.
Partial filmography
* ''Das schwarze Amulett'' (1920)
* ''Der Totenkopf'' (1920)
* ''Die Hexe von Lolaruh'' (1920) as Waldläufer
* ''A Dying Nation'' (1922, part 1, 2)
* '' Helena'' (1924) ...
as Generaldirektor Livius
*
Marieluise Claudius
Marie Luise Claudius (6 January 1912 – 2 August 1941) was a German actress.
Claudius was the daughter of the court actor and writer Erich Claudius and the actress Lisbeth Reschke. During her childhood, she appeared several times on the stage ...
as Etelka, seine Tochter
*
Veit Harlan
Veit Harlan (22 September 1899 – 13 April 1964) was a German film director and actor. Harlan reached the highpoint of his career as a director in the Nazi era; most notably his antisemitic film ''Jud Süß'' (1940) makes him controversial ...
as Andreas, sein Sohn
*
Kurt Vespermann as Leutnant Biegl
*
Oskar Sima as Schopf, ein Agent
*
Bruno Ziener as Heckeli
*
Dorothea Thiess
Dorothea Thiess (1897–1973) was a German stage, film and television actress.Welch p.274
Selected filmography
* ''Sacred Waters'' (1932)
* ''Scandal on Park Street'' (1932)
* ''Anna and Elizabeth'' (1933)
* ''The Roberts Case'' (1933)
* ''The Re ...
as Mascha
*
Michael von Newlinsky
*
Ernst Rotmund
Ernst Rotmund (26 November 1886 – 2 March 1955) was a German actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1917 to 1954.
Selected filmography
References
External links
*
1886 births
1955 deaths
German male film actors
...
*
Hans Schneider
*
Alfred Stein
*
Arthur Reppert
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*
Karl Falkenberg
Karl Falkenberg (born Karl Franz Josef Falkenberg, 6 April 1887 – died after 1936) was a German-Jewish film actor.
Selected filmography
* '' Clown Charly'' (1918)
* '' Cain'' (1918)
* '' Blackmailed'' (1920)
* ''The Song of the Puszta'' (1 ...
References
Bibliography
* Noack, Frank. ''Veit Harlan: The Life and Work of a Nazi Filmmaker''. University Press of Kentucky, 2016.
External links
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1935 films
1935 drama films
German drama films
Films of Nazi Germany
1930s German-language films
Films directed by Rolf Randolf
German black-and-white films
Remakes of German films
Sound film remakes of silent films
1930s German films
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