''The Traitress'' (German: ''Die Verräterin'') is a 1911 German silent

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...

directed by

Urban Gad Peter Urban Bruun Gad (12 February 1879 – 26 December 1947) was a Danish film director, stage actor, screenwriter, and author. He directed 40 films between 1910 and 1927. His wife Asta Nielsen starred in 30 of his films, also in his début the ...

and starring

Asta Nielsen The General Students' Committee (German: Allgemeiner Studierendenausschuss) or AStA, is the acting executive board and the external representing agency of the (constituted) student body at universities in most German states. It is therefore consid ...

Max Obal Max Obal (born Max David Gotthelf Sroke; 4 September 1881 – 18 May 1949) was a German actor, singer, screenwriter, and film director. He co-directed the 1927 swashbuckler '' Rinaldo Rinaldini'' featuring Hans Albers.Grange p.251 Selected filmog ...

and

Robert Valberg Robert Valberg (28 April 1884 – 15 October 1955) was an Austrian stage and film actor. Selected filmography * ''The Traitress'' (1911) * '' Ivan Koschula'' (1914) * ''The Silent Mill'' (1914) * ''Laugh Bajazzo'' (1915) * ''Money in the Streets'' ...

.Bock & Bergfelder p.145 It was shot at the

Babelsberg Studios Babelsberg Film Studio (german: Filmstudio Babelsberg), located in Potsdam-Babelsberg outside Berlin, Germany, is the second oldest large-scale film studio in the world only preceded by the Danish Nordisk Film (est. 1906), producing films since ...

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Cast

as Yvonne *

as Marquis de Bougival *

as Lieutenant von Mallwitz *

Emil Albes Friedrich Emil Albes (30 October 1861 – 22 March 1923) was a German actor and film director of the silent era.Giesen p.171 Selected filmography * ''The Traitress'' (1911) * '' Poor Jenny'' (1912) * '' The Dance of Death'' (1912) * '' Veritas ...

as Vujrat, leader of the partisans

References

Bibliography

* Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009.

External links

* 1911 films Films directed by Urban Gad German silent feature films Films of the German Empire German black-and-white films Franco-Prussian War films Films shot at Babelsberg Studios 1910s German films {{1910s-Germany-film-stub