''The White Roses of Ravensberg'' (German: ''Die weißen Rosen von Ravensberg'') is a 1919 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 and starring

Nils Olaf Chrisander Nils Olaf Chrisander (born Waldemar Olaf Chrisander, 14 February 1884 – 5 June 1947) was a Swedish actor and film director in the early part of the twentieth century. Biography Chrisander's first screen appearances as an actor were in German a ...

.Jacobsen p.252 It is based on the 1896 novel by

Eufemia von Adlersfeld-Ballestrem Anna Eufemia Carolina Gräfin von Adlersfeld-Ballestrem (1854–1941) was a German aristocratic novelist. Early life She was born in Ratibor, Upper Silesia, as the daughter of Count Alexander von Ballestrem (1806-1881) and his wife, Mathi ...

which was later adapted into a 1929 film of the same title. 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 ...

Gustav A. Knauer Gustav A. Knauer (1886–1950) was a German art director.Gemünden p.171 He designed the sets of more than a hundred films during his career. Selected filmography * '' The White Roses of Ravensberg'' (1919) * '' The Flight into Marriage'' (1922) ...

. 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 ...

and on location around

Potsdam Potsdam () is the capital and, with around 183,000 inhabitants, largest city of the German state of Brandenburg. It is part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. Potsdam sits on the River Havel, a tributary of the Elbe, downstream of B ...

Cast

as Fürst Marcel Hochwald *

Hans Adalbert Schlettow Hans Adalbert Schlettow (11 June 1888 – 30 April 1945) was a German film actor. Schlettow appeared in around a hundred and sixty films during his career, the majority during the silent era. Among his best-known film roles was ''Hagen von Tronje' ...

as Graf Ludwig Erlenstein *

Uschi Elleot Uschi Elleot (1899–1975) was a German stage and film actress who starred in a number of silent films.Goble p.4 She was the younger sister of actress Carola Toelle. After her cinema career ended she emigrated to the United States and married an ...

as Iris von Ravensberg * Frau Marion as Mutter Marie von Ravensberg * Erna Thiele as Tochter Sigrid Erlenstein * Franz Baumann * Maud Marion *

Robert Scholz Robert Scholz (23 April 1886 – 10 October 1927) was a German film actor of the silent era. He appeared in 76 films between 1919 and 1928. He was born in Germany and died in Berlin. Selected filmography * ''A Drive into the Blue'' (1919) ...

Ilse Wilke Ilse is a common female name, technically a German diminutive of Elisabeth, functioning as a given name in its own right chiefly in Austria, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and all of the Scandinavian countries including Finland. ...

References

Bibliography

* Wolfgang Jacobsen. ''Babelsberg: das Filmstudio''. Argon, 1994.

External links

* 1919 films Films of the Weimar Republic Films directed by Nils Olaf Chrisander German silent feature films German drama films German black-and-white films 1919 drama films Films shot at Babelsberg Studios Silent drama films 1910s German films {{1910s-Germany-film-stub