''Tempo! Tempo!'' is a 1929 German
silent adventure film
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directed by
Max Obal
Max Obal (born Max David Gotthelf Sroke; 4 September 1881 – 18 May 1949) was a German actor, singer, screenwriter, and film director. He co-directed the 1927 swashbuckler '' Rinaldo Rinaldini'' featuring Hans Albers.Grange p.251
Selected filmogr ...
and starring
Luciano Albertini,
Trude Berliner
Trude Berliner (28 February 1903 – 26 February 1977) was a German actress. She was one of many Jewish actors and actresses who were forced to flee Europe when the Nazis came to power in 1933.
Biography
Berliner was born Gertrude Berliner in Be ...
and
Oreste Bilancia.
[Bock & Bergfelder p.440] It was shot at the
Staaken Studios
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in
Berlin
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and
on location on the
Italian Riviera
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. The film's
art direction
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was by
Botho Hoefer
Botho Hoefer (1880–1958) was a German art director.Parrill p.231
Selected filmography
* '' The Golden Plague'' (1921)
* '' Lucrezia Borgia'' (1922)
* ''Louise de Lavallière'' (1922)
* '' The Evangelist'' (1924)
* '' The Hobgoblin'' (1924)
* ...
and
Hans Minzloff.
Cast
In alphabetical order
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Luciano Albertini as Lilso Lagard
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Trude Berliner
Trude Berliner (28 February 1903 – 26 February 1977) was a German actress. She was one of many Jewish actors and actresses who were forced to flee Europe when the Nazis came to power in 1933.
Biography
Berliner was born Gertrude Berliner in Be ...
as Mila
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Oreste Bilancia as Luigi Vespa
*
Fritz Kampers
Fritz Kampers (14 July 1891 – 1 September 1950) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 250 films between 1913 and 1950.
Early life
Fritz Kampers was the son of a Munich hotel owner, spent his early childhood in Garmisch-Partenk ...
as Jolly Baker
*
Hermann Picha
Hermann Picha (20 March 1865 – 7 June 1936) was a German stage and film actor. Picha was extremely prolific, appearing in over 300 short and feature films during the silent and early sound eras. Picha played a mixture of lead and supporting r ...
as Tito Tartini
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Arthur Reppert
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as Pit
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Hilda Rosch as Imogen Robinson
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Angelo Rossi as Orge
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Johannes Roth Johannes Rudolf Roth (September 4, 1815 – June 26, 1858) was a German zoologist and traveler.
Biography
Roth was born in Nuremberg to Karl Johann Friedrich von Roth, president of the Bavarian Supreme Consistory (''Oberkonsistorialpräsident ...
as Pot
References
Bibliography
* Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009.
External links
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1929 films
Films of the Weimar Republic
Films directed by Max Obal
German silent feature films
German black-and-white films
Films shot at Staaken Studios
1929 adventure films
German adventure films
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