''The Spies'' (German: ''Die Spione'') is a 1919 German
crime film directed by
Ewald André Dupont
Ewald André Dupont (25 December 1891 – 12 December 1956) was a German film director, one of the pioneers of the German film industry. He was often credited as E. A. Dupont.
Early career
A newspaper columnist in 1916, Dupont became a screenwri ...
and starring
Max Landa
Max Landa ( be, Макс Ландаў; 24 April 1873 – 8 November 1933; born Max Landau) was a Russian-born Austrian silent film and stage actor.
Career
Landa attended the Handelsakademie (commercial academy) in Vienna and took classes with a ...
,
Johanna Terwin and
Hanni Weisse
Hanni Weisse (16 October 1892 – 13 December 1967) was a German stage and film actress.Sutton, Katie. The Masculine Woman in Weimar Germany', pp. 68-69. New York, New York: Bergahn, 2011. She appeared in 146 films between 1912 and 1942.
Biogra ...
.
[Bock & Bergfelder p.102]
The film's sets were designed by the
art director Robert A. Dietrich
Robert A. Dietrich (28 March 1889 – 8 September 1947) was a German art director.Scheunemann p.277 He designed the sets for more than a hundred films during his career.
Selected filmography
* '' The Student of Prague'' (1913)
* '' The Path of De ...
.
Cast
*
Max Landa
Max Landa ( be, Макс Ландаў; 24 April 1873 – 8 November 1933; born Max Landau) was a Russian-born Austrian silent film and stage actor.
Career
Landa attended the Handelsakademie (commercial academy) in Vienna and took classes with a ...
as Detektiv
*
Johanna Terwin as Marion
*
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 ...
as Dr. Mahon
*
Bernhard Goetzke
Bernhard Goetzke (5 June 1884 – 7 October 1964) was a German stage and film actor. He appeared in 130 films between 1917 and 1961.
Selected filmography
* ''Fear'' (1917)
* ''The Last Sun Son'' (1919)
* ''The Japanese Woman'' (1919)
* ''The P ...
as Jean Babtiste, politische Agenten
*
Arthur Beder as Jean Babtiste
*
Paul Biensfeldt
Paul Biensfeldt (4 March 1869 – 2 April 1933) was a German-JewishSiegbert Salomon Prawer, ''Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933'', Berghahn Books (2007), p. 213 stage and film actor.
Selected filmog ...
as Dunkle Existenz
*
Hanni Weisse
Hanni Weisse (16 October 1892 – 13 December 1967) was a German stage and film actress.Sutton, Katie. The Masculine Woman in Weimar Germany', pp. 68-69. New York, New York: Bergahn, 2011. She appeared in 146 films between 1912 and 1942.
Biogra ...
References
Bibliography
* Hans-Michael Bock and Tim Bergfelder. ''The Concise Cinegraph: An Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009.
External links
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1919 films
Films of the Weimar Republic
German silent feature films
Films directed by E. A. Dupont
German crime films
1919 crime films
German black-and-white films
1910s German films
1910s German-language films
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