''The Sporck Battalion'' (German: ''Die sporck'schen Jäger'') is a 1934 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
Theodor Loos
Theodor August Konrad Loos (18 May 1883 – 27 June 1954) was a German actor.
The son of a watchmaker and instruments manufacturer, he left secondary school prematurely and worked for three years at an export firm for music instruments in L ...
and starring
Fritz Genschow
Fritz Genschow (15 May 1905 – 21 June 1977) was a German actor, film director and screenwriter.
Selected filmography
* ''Hands Up, Eddy Polo'' (1929) - Russenphilipp
* ''Beyond the Street'' (1929) - Der Arbeitsloser / The Unemployed man
* ' ...
,
Werner Schott
Werner Schott (20 November 1891, in Berlin – 6 September 1965) was a German actor.
Selected filmography
* ''Gefesselt'' (1920) - Allan
* ''Das vierte Gebot'' (1920) - Weltpriester Eduard
* ''Wie Satan starb'' (1920)
* ''Golgatha'' (1920) - Jos ...
and
Erich Fiedler
Erich Fiedler (15 March 1901 – 19 May 1981) was a German film actor. He was the German dubbing voice of Robert Morley.
Selected filmography
* ''The Escape to Nice'' (1932)
* '' Overnight Sensation'' (1932)
* '' Marion, That's Not Nice'' (1933 ...
.
[Waldman p.148] It is based on a novel of the same name which had previously been made into the 1927 silent film ''
The Sporck Battalion''.
It was shot at the
Bavaria Studios
Bavaria Studios are film production studios located in Munich, the capital of the region of Bavaria in Germany, and a subsidiary of Bavaria Film.
History
The studios were constructed in the suburb of Geiselgasteig in 1919 shortly after the Fir ...
in
Munich
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and
on location around the
Masuren Lakes in
East Prussia
East Prussia ; german: Ostpreißen, label=Low Prussian; pl, Prusy Wschodnie; lt, Rytų Prūsija was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1773 to 1829 and again from 1878 (with the Kingdom itself being part of the German Empire from 187 ...
. 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 ...
Heinrich Richter
Heinrich Richter (1884–1981) was a German painter and art director.Soister p.122 He designed the sets for more than a hundred films during his career.
Selected filmography
* ''The Confessions of the Green Mask'' (1916)
* ''The Sensational Tr ...
.
Cast
*
Fritz Genschow
Fritz Genschow (15 May 1905 – 21 June 1977) was a German actor, film director and screenwriter.
Selected filmography
* ''Hands Up, Eddy Polo'' (1929) - Russenphilipp
* ''Beyond the Street'' (1929) - Der Arbeitsloser / The Unemployed man
* ' ...
as Leutnant v. Naugaard
*
Werner Schott
Werner Schott (20 November 1891, in Berlin – 6 September 1965) was a German actor.
Selected filmography
* ''Gefesselt'' (1920) - Allan
* ''Das vierte Gebot'' (1920) - Weltpriester Eduard
* ''Wie Satan starb'' (1920)
* ''Golgatha'' (1920) - Jos ...
as Hauptmann Rabenhainer
*
Erich Fiedler
Erich Fiedler (15 March 1901 – 19 May 1981) was a German film actor. He was the German dubbing voice of Robert Morley.
Selected filmography
* ''The Escape to Nice'' (1932)
* '' Overnight Sensation'' (1932)
* '' Marion, That's Not Nice'' (1933 ...
as Oberleutnant v. Vahlenberg
*
Theodor Loos
Theodor August Konrad Loos (18 May 1883 – 27 June 1954) was a German actor.
The son of a watchmaker and instruments manufacturer, he left secondary school prematurely and worked for three years at an export firm for music instruments in L ...
as Oberförster Rüdiger
*
Reva Holsey as Elsbeth, seine Tochter
*
Fritz Alberti
Fritz Alberti (born Friedrich Wilhelm Alberti; 22 October 1877 – 15 September 1954) was a German actor.
Selected filmography
* ''People in Ecstasy'' (1921)
* '' The Other Woman'' (1924)
* ''The Blackguard'' (1925)
* '' Ship in Distress'' (1925 ...
as Oberstleutnant
*
Paul Rehkopf
Paul Anton Heinrich Rehkopf (21 May 1872 – 29 June 1949) was a German actor.
He was born in Braunschweig and died in Braunschweig, Germany
Selected filmography
* '' Diary of a Lost Woman'' (1918)
* '' Film Kathi'' (1918)
* '' Lorenzo Burghardt ...
as Vater Retelsdorf, Fischermeister
*
Margarete Kupfer
Margarete Kupfer (born Margarete Kupferschmid; 10 April 1881 – 11 May 1953) was a German actress.
Partial filmography
* '' The Canned Bride'' (1915)
* '' Frau Eva'' (1916)
* ''The Queen's Secretary'' (1916)
* '' When Four Do the Same'' (1917) ...
as Seine Frau
*
Rotraut Richter
Rotraut Richter (15 May 1915 – 1 October 1947) was a German stage and film actress. She appeared in the role of Gerda in the 1933 Nazi propaganda film '' Hitlerjunge Quex'', receiving a letter of thanks from Joseph Goebbels along with the rest ...
as Mike, beider Tochter
*
Paul Westermeier
Paul Westermeier (9 July 1892 – 17 October 1972) was a German film actor.
Selected filmography
* '' Wedding in the Eccentric Club'' (1917)
* '' Agnes Arnau and Her Three Suitors'' (1918)
* '' About the Son'' (1921)
* '' Memoirs of a Film Act ...
as Heinrich Kremzow, Fischergeselle
*
Erik Ode
Erik Ode (born Fritz Erik Signy Odemar, 6 November 1910 – 19 July 1983) was a German director and actor who was most famous for playing Kommissar ''Herbert Keller'' in the German television drama '' Der Kommissar'' (The Police Inspector). He mar ...
*
Ida Perry
*
Antonie Jaeckel
Antonie Jaeckel (5 September 1876 – 26 December 1960) was a German actress.
Selected filmography
* ''Madeleine (1919 film), Madeleine'' (1919)
* ''Fridericus Rex'' (1922)
* ''The Unknown Tomorrow'' (1923)
* ''Cock of the Roost'' (1925)
* ''If On ...
*
Frank Günther
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* Franks (surname)
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Curre ...
*
Michael von Newlinsky
Michael von Newlinsky (21 June 1891 – 14 August 1964) was an Austrian film actor who appeared in numerous supporting roles during his career, in films such as Georg Wilhelm Pabst's ''Pandora's Box'' (1929).Roberts p.82
Selected filmography
* ' ...
*
Max Wilmsen
*
Franz Klebusch
Franz Klebusch (22 January 1887 – 25 May 1951) was a German stage and film actor. Klebusch appeared in 27 films during his career including a small role in the anti-Semitic film ''Jud Süß'' (1940).Picart p.396
Selected filmography
* '' A Murd ...
References
Bibliography
* Waldman, Harry. ''Nazi Films in America, 1933-1942''. McFarland, 2008.
External links
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1934 films
1934 drama films
German drama films
Films of Nazi Germany
1930s German-language films
Films directed by Rolf Randolf
Bavaria Film films
Films shot at Bavaria Studios
Films based on German novels
German black-and-white films
Remakes of German films
Films set in Prussia
1930s German films
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