''Jan Vermeulen, the Miller of Flanders'' (German: ''Jan Vermeulen, der Müller aus Flandern'') is a 1917 German silent

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directed by

Georg Jacoby Georg Jacoby (23 July 1882 – 21 February 1964) was a German film director and screenwriter.Profile
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. It was made as a

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by the German film agency BUFA, which generally specialised in making documentaries but also made feature films such as this and '' Dr. Hart's Diary''.Fuhrmann, Wolfgang ''Imperial Projections: Screening the German Colonies''.

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, 2015. p. 261.

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took place around

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and

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in German-occupied Belgian Flanders.

Cast

* Richard Bruno as Müller Jan Vermeulen *Rose Veldtkirch as Müllerin Marianne Vermeulen *

Karl Berger Karl Hans Berger (March 30, 1935 – April 9, 2023) was a German-American jazz pianist, vibraphonist, composer, and educator. He was a leading figure in jazz improvisation from the 1960s when he settled in the United States for life. He founde ...

as Arzt Genesius *

Fred Immler Ferdinand "Fred" Immler (10 December 1880 –20 February 1965) was a German stage and film actor. Life Born in Coburg, as a young adult he worked from 1900 to 1902 at Deutsche Bank in Berlin and from 1902 to 1904 at Dresdner Bank. 1905 he ret ...

as Lehrer Johann Freihardt *Alfred Jürgens as Sohn Pieter Vermeulen *

Léo Lasko Léo Lasko (1885–1949) was a German screenwriter and film director of the Silent film, silent and early Sound film, sound eras. As Lasko was of Jewish descent he was classified as a "non-Aryan" by the Nazis. Following their 1933 takeover he was b ...

as Müllersknecht

References

Bibliography

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

External links

* Films of the German Empire German silent feature films Films directed by Georg Jacoby 1917 drama films German World War I films Films shot in Belgium German black-and-white films German war drama films Films set in Flanders 1910s war drama films Silent war drama films 1910s German films 1910s German-language films German-language war drama films {{1910s-Germany-film-stub