''The White Paradise'' (German: ''Das weisse Paradies'') is a 1929 Austrian

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 ...

directed by

Max Neufeld Max Neufeld (13 February 1887 – 2 December 1967) was an Austrian film director, actor and screenwriter. He directed 70 films between 1919 and 1957. He directed the 1934 film '' The Song of the Sun'', which starred Vittorio De Sica. Select ...

and starring

Fred Doederlein Fred Doederlein (born Lothar Fritz Oskar Döderlein; 24 April 1906 – 23 April 1985) was a German stage and film actor.Muir p.203 He played leading roles in several silent films during the 1920s. He later emigrated to Canada and appeared in Davi ...

Hilde Jennings Hilde Jennings was a German film actress. She was married to Soviet Union film director Mikhail Iosifovich Dubson. Selected filmography * ''The Brigantine of New York'' (1924) * '' Oh Those Glorious Old Student Days'' (1925) * ''Poor Little Colo ...

and

Hans Marr Hans Marr (born Johann Julius Richter; 22 July 1878 – 21 March 1949) was a German actor. Selected filmography * '' The Black Hand'' (1917) * ''The Wandering Image'' (1920) * ''The Adventure of Doctor Kircheisen'' (1920) * '' Steuermann Holk'' ...

.Loacker p.46 The film's sets were designed by the

art director Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film industry, film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...

Artur Berger Artur Semyonovich Berger (german: Arthur Berger, russian: Артур Семёнович Бергер; 27 May 1892 – 11 January 1981) was an Austrian-Soviet film architect and set designer. He was active in Austria between 1920 and 1936, during ...

Cast

as Kurt Bergen - Skilehrer *

as Inge *

as Kommerzialrat Krüger, ihr Vater *

Illa Meery Illa Meery (1915–2010) was a Russian-born French adventuress, singer, film actress and possibly Soviet spy who became involved in the French black market under German occupation. Émigrée She was the daughter of count Alexandre Alexandro ...

as Lucy Erskine *

Hans Thimig Hans Emil Thimig, pseudonym: Hans Werner (23 July 1900 in Vienna – 17 February 1991, also in Vienna) was an Austrian actor, film director, and stage director. Life The youngest son of the Burgtheater actor Hugo Thimig and Franziska "Fanny" Hu ...

as Donald Evans * Peter C. Leska as Olaf Hardt *

Eugen Neufeld Eugen Neufeld (6 December 1882 in Göding – 18 October 1950 in Vienna) was an Austrian-Jewish film actor. He was the older brother of actor and director Max Neufeld. Siegbert Salomon Prawer, ''Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German a ...

as John Bird *

Clementine Plessner Clementine Plessner (7 December 1855 – 27 February 1943) was an Austrian stage and film actress. Plessner worked in the German film industry and appeared in over sixty films, mostly during the silent era. Plessner featured in Richard Oswald's ...

as Kramer-Resi

References

Bibliography

* Armin Loacker. ''Kunst der Routine: der Schauspieler und Regisseur Max Neufeld''. Filmarchiv Austria, 2008.

External links

* 1929 films Films directed by Max Neufeld Austrian silent feature films Films set in the Alps Skiing films Austrian black-and-white films {{silent-film-stub