''The Pride of the Company'' (German: ''Der Stolz der Kompanie'') is a 1926 German
silent comedy film directed by
Georg Jacoby and starring
Reinhold Schünzel
Reinhold Schünzel (7 November 1888 – 11 November 1954) was a German actor and director, active in both Germany and the United States. The son of a German father and a Jewish mother, he was born in St. Pauli, the poorest part of Hamburg. Despite ...
,
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, eine Symphonie des Grauens'' (1922). Georg appeared in over one hundred films.
He wa ...
and
Camilla Spira.
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 ...
s
Otto Erdmann and
Hans Sohnle.
Cast
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Reinhold Schünzel
Reinhold Schünzel (7 November 1888 – 11 November 1954) was a German actor and director, active in both Germany and the United States. The son of a German father and a Jewish mother, he was born in St. Pauli, the poorest part of Hamburg. Despite ...
as Wilhelm - der Stolz der Kompagnie
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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, eine Symphonie des Grauens'' (1922). Georg appeared in over one hundred films.
He wa ...
as DCaptain
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Camilla Spira as Minna
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Henry Bender as sergeant
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Sig Arno as recruit #2
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Paul Morgan as recruit #2
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Kurt Vespermann as Musketier Franz
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Werner Pittschau
Werner Pittschau (24 March 1902 – 28 October 1928) was a German theater and film actor of the silent film era. He was a leading men in 30 films during the 1920s, but his career was cut short by his death in an automobile accident, aged 26.
Pit ...
as Leutnant Fritz von Gernsdorf
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Fritz Kampers as Sergeant Müller
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Lydia Potechina as Frau Witwe Niemeyer
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Hugo Werner-Kahle as Gutsbesitzer von Redern
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Elga Brink as Meta von Redern
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Julius Falkenstein as Oberstleutnant Erich von Falkenhagen
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Olga Engl as Karla von Wendhausen
References
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Films of the Weimar Republic
German silent feature films
Films directed by Georg Jacoby
Silent German comedy films
Military humor in film
German black-and-white films
1926 comedy films
1920s German-language films
1920s German films
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