''Youth of the Big City'' (German: ''Grosstadtjugend'') is a 1929 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

Rudolf Walther-Fein Rudolf Walther-Fein (20 November 1875 – 1 May 1933) was an Austrian film director and producer of the Silent and early sound era. He directed the first full sound film to be released in Germany ''It's You I Have Loved'' in 1929.Kreimeier p.182 ...

and starring

Harry Liedtke Harry Liedtke (12 October 1882 – 28 April 1945) was a German film actor. Early life Liedtke was born in Königsberg, East Prussia to a merchant as the seventh out of 12 children. After the death of his father in 1896, he grew up in an orphanage ...

Ida Wüst Ida Wüst (; 10 October 1884 – 4 October 1958) was a German stage and film actress whose career was prominent in the 1920s and 1930s with Universum Film AG (UFA). Life and career Little is known about Ida Wüst's early childhood. She discovere ...

and

Maria Paudler Maria Paudler (20 June 1903 – 17 August 1990) was an Austro-Hungarian-born German actress. Selected filmography * '' Madame Wants No Children'' (1926) * ''The Young Man from the Ragtrade'' (1926) * '' The Violet Eater'' (1926) * ''One Does No ...

.Grange p.307 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 ...

Botho Hoefer Botho Hoefer (1880–1958) was a German art director.Parrill p.231 Selected filmography * '' The Golden Plague'' (1921) * '' Lucrezia Borgia'' (1922) * '' Louise de Lavallière'' (1922) * '' The Evangelist'' (1924) * '' The Hobgoblin'' (1924) * ...

and

Hans Minzloff Hans Minzloff (1890–1962) was a German art director.Gemünden p.171 Selected filmography * '' Our Heavenly Bodies'' (1925) * '' Struggle for the Soil'' (1925) * ''Carnival Magic'' (1927) * '' The Insurmountable'' (1928) * '' The Circus Princes ...

Cast

as Dr. phil. Axel v. Rohdenbeck *

as Frau Emma Lüders *

as Magda Lüders, ihre Tochter * Helmut Gauer as Hans Lüders, ihr Sohn * Gustav Rickelt as Otto Gericke, Margarine en gros *

Trude Lehmann Trude Lehmann (1892–1987) was a German film actress.Grange p.307 Selected filmography * ''Children of No Importance'' (1926) * ''We'll Meet Again in the Heimat'' (1926) * ''Unmarried Daughters ''Unmarried Daughters'' (German: ''Ledige Töcht ...

as Ottilie Gericke, seine Gattin * Alex Sascha as Graf Tomasini *

Carl Auen Carl Theodor Auen (16 February 1892 – 23 June 1972) was a German film actor of the silent era. He appeared in more than 110 films between 1914 and 1938. Auen was a member of the Militant League for German Culture and also a member of the ...

as Armin Eggebrecht *

Hermann Picha Hermann Picha (20 March 1865 – 7 June 1936) was a German stage and film actor. Picha was extremely prolific, appearing in over 300 short and feature films during the silent and early sound eras. Picha played a mixture of lead and supporting r ...

as Kunibert Wespe, Detektiv * Hilde Auen as Elli *

Wilhelm Diegelmann Wilhelm Diegelmann (28 September 1861 – 1 March 1934) was a German actor. Career Diegelmann's first stage appearance was in 1878 in the chorus for the Frankfurt Opera. In 1881 he debuted at the Frankfurt City Theater, playing King Lear, Wil ...

as Der Wirt * Sylvia Torf as Die Wirtin *

Max Maximilian Max Maximilian (born Franz Kuhn; 23 September 1885 – 25 June 1930)Landesarchiv Berlin, Sterberegister StA Schöneweide, Nr. 196/1930 was a German singer, actor and director.Waldman p.141 Career Maximilian was born in Cologne and began his career ...

as 1. Strolch *

Alfred Loretto Alfred may refer to: Arts and entertainment *''Alfred J. Kwak'', Dutch-German-Japanese anime television series *Alfred (Arne opera), ''Alfred'' (Arne opera), a 1740 masque by Thomas Arne *Alfred (Dvořák), ''Alfred'' (Dvořák), an 1870 opera ...

as 2. Strolch

References

Bibliography

* Grange, William. ''Cultural Chronicle of the Weimar Republic''. Scarecrow Press, 2008.

External links

* 1929 films Films of the Weimar Republic Films directed by Rudolf Walther-Fein German silent feature films German black-and-white films German drama films 1929 drama films Silent drama films 1920s German films 1920s German-language films {{Germany-silent-film-stub