''The Saint and Her Fool'' (German: ''Die Heilige und ihr Narr'') is a 1928

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silent

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directed by

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and starring Dieterle,

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and

Gina Manès Gina Manès (born Blanche Moulin; 7 April 1893 – 6 September 1989) was a French film actress and a major star of French silent cinema. After an early appearance in a Louis Feuillade film, she had significant roles in films of Germaine Dulac and ...

. It was based on a novel by

Agnes Günther Agnes Günther (born Agnes Breuning, 21 July 1863 – 16 February 1911) was a German writer. Life Agnes Breuning was a daughter of Hermann Otto Breuning, a businessman and banker, and his wife Anna Maria Barrell, who came from England. Agnes a ...

and premiered at the

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.Kreimeier p.115

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was by

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. For a long time, the movie was considered lost. Although never released in the US, a nitrate copy was discovered in Jack Warner's personal vault. In 2008 it was given to the

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in Los Angeles and restored. It was remade twice into a 1935

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directed by

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and a 1957 Austrian film directed by

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Cast

as Harro, Graf von Torstein *

as Rosemarie von Brauneck *

as Fürstin von Brauneck * Félix P. Soler as Fürst von Brauneck *

Camilla von Hollay Camilla von Hollay (born Kamilla Borbála Hollay; 11 July 1899 – 9 February 1967) was a Hungarian film actress of the silent era. She appeared in more than 40 films between 1917 and 1930. She was born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary and die ...

as Fräulein Braun *

Mathilde Sussin Mathilde Sussin (21 September 1876 – 2 August 1943) was an Austrian actress. Sussin was born in Vienna into a Jewish family and died in 1943 at Theresienstadt concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. Selected filmography * '' The Black Tulip Fe ...

as Frau von Hardenstein *

Heinrich Gotho Heinrich Gotho (May 3, 1872 – August 28, 1938) was an Austrian film actor. Born in Dolina (now in Ukraine), he started his acting career at some provincial theatres until he found an engagement at the Neues Volkstheater in Berlin. The charact ...

as Märt *

Sophie Pagay Sophie Berg Pagay (22 April 1860 – 23 January 1937) was an Austrian stage and film actress, born in Brünn, Austria-Hungary. She began acting as a child, and went to Berlin to perform on stage in 1887. She married actor Hans Pagay. Selected f ...

as Tante Uli *

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 Tante Marga *

Hanni Reinwald Hanni Reinwald (24 August 1903 – 1978) was a German stage actor, stage and film actress.Grange p.252 Originally a child actor, she later graduated to adult roles, and retired from the film industry at the end of the silent era. She was the sis ...

as Lisa, Rosemaries Zofe *

Loni Nest Eleonore "Loni" Arnault ( Nest, 4 August 1915 – 2 October 1990), known professionally by her maiden name of Loni Nest, was a German actress. Born in Berlin, she was a child star of German silent films in the 1920s. She was filmed for the first ...

as Rosemarie als Kind

References

Bibliography

* Kreimeier, Klaus. ''The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918-1945''. University of California Press, 1999.

External links

* 1928 films Films of the Weimar Republic 1928 drama films German silent feature films German drama films Films directed by William Dieterle Films based on German novels 1920s rediscovered films German black-and-white films Rediscovered German films Silent drama films 1920s German films {{Germany-silent-film-stub