''Ikarus, the Flying Man'' (German: ''Ikarus, der fliegende Mensch'') is a 1918 German silent

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directed by

Carl Froelich Carl August Hugo Froelich (5 September 1875 – 12 February 1953) was a German film pioneer and film director. He was born and died in Berlin. Biography Apparatus builder and cameraman From 1903 Froelich was a colleague of Oskar Messter, one of ...

and starring

Ernst Hofmann Ernst Karl Heinrich Hofmann (7 December 1880 – 27 April 1945) was a German stage and film actor. Selected filmography * '' The White Roses'' (1916) * '' Dr. Hart's Diary'' (1917) * '' Countess Kitchenmaid'' (1918) * '' Ikarus, the Flying Man ...

Esther Carena Esther Carena (born Franziska Lucia Pfeiffer; 24 August 1898 – 26 January 1972) was a German actress. She appeared in more than 30 films between 1916 and 1924. Biography The daughter of a German father and Spanish mother, she studied medicine f ...

and

Gustav Botz Gustav Botz (4 August 1883 – 29 September 1932) was a German actor. Early life and career Botz was born on 4 August 1883 at Bremen, German Empire. Botz began his career in film business ''The Foreign Prince'' (1918), ''The Devil'' (1918), ' ...

.Bock & Bergfelder p.138 While a press screening was held in October 1918, during the final weeks of the

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, it did not go on general release until the following July when it premiered at the

Marmorhaus The Marmorhaus (English: Marble House) was a movie theater, cinema that used to be located on the Kurfürstendamm in Berlin. Opened in 1913, it takes its name from a large marble façade. Designed by the architect Hugo Pál, the walls of the foyer ...

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. The film's sets were designed by the

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Artur Günther Artur Günther (1893–1972) was a German art director.Giesen p.202 He designed the sets for more than a hundred films during a lengthy career. Selected filmography * ''When the Dead Speak'' (1917) * ''Ikarus, the Flying Man'' (1918) * ''Alraune, ...

. It was shot at the

Tempelhof Studios The Tempelhof Studios are a film studio located in Tempelhof in the German capital of Berlin. They were founded in 1912, during the silent era, by German film pioneer Alfred Duskes, who built a glass-roofed studio on the site with financial back ...

Cast

as Günthers Father *

as Clemense de *

Olga Engl Olga Engl (30 May 1871 – 21 September 1946) was an Austrian-German stage and motion picture actress who appeared in nearly 200 films. Biography Engl was privately educated in an Ursuline monastery and began her acting career at the Prague C ...

as Günthers Mother *

as Günther Ellinghaus * Heinz Sarnow * Edith Sorel as Eriks

References

Bibliography

* Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009.

External links

* 1918 films German silent feature films Films directed by Carl Froelich German black-and-white films Films based on German novels 1918 war films Films of the German Empire Films shot at Tempelhof Studios World War I aviation films Silent German war films 1910s German films {{1910s-Germany-film-stub