''Lützow's Wild Hunt'' (German: ''Lützows wilde verwegene Jagd'') is a 1927 German silent

war film War film is a film genre concerned with warfare, typically about navy, naval, air force, air, or army, land battles, with combat scenes central to the drama. It has been strongly associated with the 20th century. The fateful nature of battle s ...

. The 1927 German silent

was directed by

Richard Oswald Richard Oswald (5 November 1880 – 11 September 1963) was an Austrian film director, producer, screenwriter, and father of German-American film director Gerd Oswald. Early life and career Richard Oswald, born in Vienna as Richard W. Ornstein, ...

Prawer p.207 and starring

Ernst Rückert Anton Ernst Rückert (20 December 1886 – 3 September 1945) was a German stage and film actor. Rückert began his theatre career in 1908 and has appeared on the stage in Bleicherode, Königsberg and Kiel, among others. In 1910 he took up an en ...

, Arthur Wellin and Mary Kid. The film's art direction was by Ernst Stern. It is part of the cycle of

Prussian films Prussian films were a cycle of historical films made in Germany during the Weimar Germany, Weimar (1918–1933) and Nazi Germany, Nazi (1933–1945) eras noted for their general glorification of History of Prussia, Prussian history and its military ...

and portrays the fight of Prussian troops under the command of Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow against the French during the

Napoleonic Wars {{Infobox military conflict , conflict = Napoleonic Wars , partof = the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars , image = Napoleonic Wars (revision).jpg , caption = Left to right, top to bottom:Battl ...

, commemorated in the poetry of Theodor Körner.

Cast

as Theodor Körner * Arthur Wellin as Major von Lützow * Mary Kid as Toni Adamberger, Schauspielerin am Burgtheater * Paul Bildt as

Napoleon Bonaparte Napoleon Bonaparte (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French general and statesman who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led Military career ...

* Wera Engels as Eleanore Prochaska, ein Bürgermädchen * Gerd Briese as Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz * Sig Arno as Franz I of Austria * Leopold von Ledebur as

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Johann Wolfgang (von) Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath who is widely regarded as the most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a wide-ranging influence on Western literature, literary, Polit ...

* Albert Steinrück as

Ludwig van Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. He is one of the most revered figures in the history of Western music; his works rank among the most performed of the classical music repertoire ...

* Friedrich Kühne as

Klemens von Metternich Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar, Prince of Metternich-Winneburg zu Beilstein ( ; 15 May 1773 – 11 June 1859), known as Klemens von Metternich () or Prince Metternich, was a German statesman and diplomat in the service of the Austrian Empire. ...

* Harry Nestor as Friedrich Wilhelm III, King of Prussia * Robert Hartberg as Archduke Franz Karl of Austria * Carl Zickner as Joseph Fouché * Eduard von Winterstein as

Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (; 21 December 1742 – 12 September 1819), ''Graf'' (count), later elevated to ''Fürst'' (prince) von Wahlstatt, was a Kingdom of Prussia, Prussian ''Generalfeldmarschall'' (field marshal). He earned his greatest ...

* Paul Marx as Hardenberg *

Eugen Jensen Eugen Jensen (1871–1957) was an Austrian stage actor, stage and film actor. He worked frequently in the Austrian and German cinemas during the silent era in supporting roles in films such as ''The Love of Jeanne Ney'' (1927).Eisner p.351 Followi ...

as Freiherr vom Stein * Josef Karma as Direktor des Burgtheaters * Hugo Döblin as Burgtheaterfaktotum * Emil Sondermann as Schmierendirektor * Theodor Burghardt

References

Bibliography

* Prawer, S.S. ''Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933''. Berghahn Books, 2005.

External links

* * {{Richard Oswald 1927 films Films of the Weimar Republic 1927 war films German silent feature films German war films Films directed by Richard Oswald Films based on poems Films set in the 1810s Prussian films Napoleonic Wars films German black-and-white films 1920s historical films German historical films Depictions of Napoleon on film Cultural depictions of Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord Cultural depictions of Klemens von Metternich Cultural depictions of Ludwig van Beethoven Cultural depictions of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Cultural depictions of Francis I of Austria Cultural depictions of Frederick William III of Prussia Films set in the Kingdom of Prussia 1920s German films 1920s German-language films German-language historical films