''The White Slave'' (german: Die weisse Sklavin) is a 1927 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 ...
directed by
Augusto Genina and starring
Liane Haid
Juliane "Liane" Haid (16 August 1895 – 28 November 2000) was an Austrian actress and singer. She has often been referred to as Austria's first movie star.
Biography
Juliane Haid was born in Vienna on 16 August 1895, the first child to Georg ...
,
Vladimir Gajdarov
Vladimir Georgievich Gajdarov (Russian: Владимир Георгиевич Гайдаров; 25 July 1893 – 17 November 1978) was a Russian film actor and star of Russian and German silent cinema.
Filmography
*''Father Sergius'' (1917), as N ...
and
Harry Hardt
Harry Hardt (born Hermann Karl Viktor Klimbacher Edler von Reichswahr, Pula, 4 August 1899 – Vienna, 14 November 1980) was an Austrian actor. The son of a military officer, he initially planned a military career for himself, studying at a mil ...
.
[Grange p. 265] The film's sets were designed by
Otto Erdmann and
Hans Sohnle
Hans Sohnle (17 September 1895 – 24 March 1976) was a German art director.Chandler p.270 He frequently collaborated with Otto Erdmann on set designs.
Selected filmography
* '' The Loves of Käthe Keller'' (1919)
* ''The Woman in Doctor's Garb ...
.
Cast
*
Liane Haid
Juliane "Liane" Haid (16 August 1895 – 28 November 2000) was an Austrian actress and singer. She has often been referred to as Austria's first movie star.
Biography
Juliane Haid was born in Vienna on 16 August 1895, the first child to Georg ...
as Lady Mary Watson, die weiße Sklavin
*
Vladimir Gajdarov
Vladimir Georgievich Gajdarov (Russian: Владимир Георгиевич Гайдаров; 25 July 1893 – 17 November 1978) was a Russian film actor and star of Russian and German silent cinema.
Filmography
*''Father Sergius'' (1917), as N ...
as Ali Benver Bey
*
Harry Hardt
Harry Hardt (born Hermann Karl Viktor Klimbacher Edler von Reichswahr, Pula, 4 August 1899 – Vienna, 14 November 1980) was an Austrian actor. The son of a military officer, he initially planned a military career for himself, studying at a mil ...
as Brefont
*
Charles Vanel
Charles-Marie Vanel (21 August 1892 – 15 April 1989) was a French actor and director. During his 76-year film career, which began in 1912, he appeared in more than 200 films and worked with many prominent directors, including Alfred Hitchcock ...
as Dr. Warner
*
Renée Héribel as Fatme, Alis Frau
*
Anatol Potock
*
Lucille Barns
*
Oreste Bilancia
Oreste Bilancia (24 September 1881 – 31 October 1945) was an Italian film actor.
Born in Catania, Sicily he was a star of Italian films in the silent era. He worked during the 1920s in Weimar Germany which had the largest European film indus ...
*
Nino Ottavi
References
Bibliography
* Grange, William. ''Cultural Chronicle of the Weimar Republic''. Scarecrow Press, 2008.
External links
*
1927 films
1927 drama films
German drama films
Films of the Weimar Republic
German silent feature films
Films directed by Augusto Genina
Films set in Morocco
German black-and-white films
Silent drama films
1920s German films
{{1920s-Germany-film-stub