''The Thirteen of Steel'' (German: ''Die Dreizehn aus Stahl'') is a 1921 German silent

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directed by

Johannes Guter Johannes Guter (born Jānis Gūters; 25 April 1882 – 18 March 1962) was a Latvians, Latvian-born German filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional film producer. Although most of his work is now lost, he is considered a pioneer of German silent cin ...

and starring

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Georg H. Schnell Georg Heinrich Schnell (11 April 1878 – 31 March 1951) was a German actor who remains perhaps best-known for his role as shipowner Harding in ''Nosferatu, Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens'' (1922). Georg appeared in over one hundred fi ...

and Claire Lotto. It was produced by

Erich Pommer Erich Pommer (20 July 1889 – 8 May 1966) was a German-born film producer and executive. Pommer was perhaps the most powerful person in the German and European film industries in the 1920s and early 1930s. As producer, Erich Pommer was involved ...

for Decla-Bioscop before the company merged with

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. It was shot at the

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.Jacobsen p.353 The film's sets were designed by the

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Cast

as Frank Steen *

as Robert Chester * Claire Lotto as Mary Reading * Rudolf Hofbauer as Davis * Joseph Klein as Ship's Captain * Nien Soen Ling as Wirt zum "Tanzenden Chinesen" *

Auguste Prasch-Grevenberg Auguste Prasch-Grevenberg (22 August 1854 – 14 December 1945) was a German stage and film actress. She was born in Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany and died in Weimar, Thuringia, Germany in 1945 at age 91. Selected filmography * ''The Plague of Flor ...

as Pensionsvorsteherin * Camillo Triembacher as Beverley * Lo Wedekind as Sidd * Lore Busch as Wirtin zur "Weißen Maus" *

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as Wirt zur "Schwarzen Ratte"

References

Bibliography

* Giesen, Rolf . ''The Nosferatu Story: The Seminal Horror Film, Its Predecessors and Its Enduring Legacy''. McFarland, 2019. * Hardt, Ursula. ''From Caligari to California: Erich Pommer's life in the International Film Wars''. Berghahn Books, 1996. * Jacobsen, Wolfgang. ''Babelsberg: das Filmstudio''. Argon, 1994.

External links

* 1921 films 1921 crime films German crime films Films of the Weimar Republic German silent feature films Films directed by Johannes Guter Films produced by Erich Pommer German black-and-white films Films shot at Babelsberg Studios 1920s German films {{1920s-drama-film-stub