''The Devil in the Bottle'' (French: ''Le diable en bouteille'') is a 1935 French-German

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directed by

Heinz Hilpert Heinz Hilpert (1 March 1890 – 25 November 1967) was a German actor, screenwriter and film director. He was head of the Deutsches Theater during the Third Reich. Selected filmography Actor * '' Nameless Heroes'' (1925) * '' Prinz Louis Ferdi ...

Reinhart Steinbicker Reinhart Steinbicker (1904–1935) was a German screenwriter and film director.Goble p.442 Selected filmography * ''Invisible Opponent'' (1933) * ''The Oil Sharks'' (1933) * '' The Tunnel'' (1933, French) * '' The Tunnel'' (1933, German) * '' The ...

and Raoul Ploquin. It stars

Käthe von Nagy Ekaterina Nagy von Cziser, better known by her stage name Käthe von Nagy (4 April 1904 – 20 December 1973), was a Hungarian actress, model, dancer, and singer who worked in the German and French cinema. Early life and education Käthe von Nag ...

, Pierre Blanchar 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 ...

.Goble p.736 It was made by the German studio

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as a French-language remake of its 1934 film '' Liebe, Tod und Teufel''. Both films are based on

Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for works such as ''Treasure Island'', ''Strange Case of Dr Jekyll a ...

's story '' The Bottle Imp''. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Otto Hunte and

Willy Schiller Willy Schiller (11 August 1899 – 17 July 1973) was a German art director.Allan & Sandford p.3 In the later part of his career he worked for DEFA, the East German state-controlled film studio. Selected filmography * '' Radio Magic'' (1927) * ' ...

Cast

as Kolua * Pierre Blanchar as Keave *

as Rubby *

Paul Azaïs Paul François Robert Azaïs (6 May 1902 – 17 November 1974) was a French film actor. He appeared in more than 110 films between 1929 and 1966. Selected filmography * '' The Three Masks'' (1929) - Le fils Vescotelli * ''Le défenseur'' ( ...

as Lopaka *

Gabriel Gabrio Gabriel Gabrio (born Édouard Gabriel Lelièvre; 13 January 1887 – 31 October 1946) was a French stage and film actor whose career began in cinema in the silent film era of the 1920s and spanned more than two decades. Gabrio is possibly best re ...

as Mounier *

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as Le marchand *

Marguerite de Morlaye Marguerite de Morlaye (29 January 1870, Saint-Mandé –18 September 1957, Paris) was a French actress. Selected filmography * ''Martyr'' (1927) * '' A Foolish Maiden'' (1929) * '' The Wonderful Day'' (1932) * '' La dame de chez Maxim's'' (1933) ...

as La comtesse * Suzy Pierson as Bertie - La femme de chambre * Georges Malkine as Vikhom * Roger Legris as Tirill *

Daniel Mendaille Daniel Mendaille (27 November 1885 – 17 May 1963) was a French stage and film actor whose career spanned nearly sixty years. Early life Born Daniel Henri Elie Mendaille in Tours, Indre-et-Loire, Mendaille studied architecture at the Académie ...

as Jerry *

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as Balmez * Léon Roger-Maxime as Hein *

Philippe Richard Philippe Richard (24 June 1891 – 24 December 1973) was a French film and theater actor. Richard was born in Saint-Étienne and began his film career in the early 1920s in silent film. In 1948 he starred in the film '' The Lame Devil'' under ...

as Macco * Gaston Dubosc as Le comte *

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as Le notaire * Gaston Mauger as Collins * Henri Bosc as Le gouverneur

References

Bibliography

* Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

External links

* 1935 films 1930s fantasy drama films French fantasy drama films German fantasy drama films 1930s French-language films Films directed by Heinz Hilpert Films directed by Raoul Ploquin Films directed by Reinhart Steinbicker Films based on works by Robert Louis Stevenson Films based on short fiction Films about wish fulfillment Films set in Oceania French multilingual films UFA GmbH films German black-and-white films French black-and-white films 1935 multilingual films 1935 drama films 1930s French films 1930s German films {{1930s-France-film-stub