Lützow's Wild Hunt (film)
Lützow's Wild Hunt (German: Lützows wilde verwegene Jagd) is a 1927 German silent war film directed by Richard Oswald[1] and starring Ernst Rückert, Arthur Wellin and Mary Kid. The film's art direction was by Ernst Stern. It is part of the cycle of Prussian films and portrays the fight of Prussian troops under the command of Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow against the French during the Napoleonic Wars, commemorated in the poetry of Theodor Körner.
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| German | Lützows wilde verwegene Jagd |
| Directed by | Richard Oswald |
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| Produced by | Richard Oswald |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Ewald Daub |
| Music by | Gustav Gold |
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| Distributed by | Richard-Oswald Film |
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Running time | 118 minutes |
| Country | Germany |
| Languages | Silent German intertitles |
Cast
- Ernst Rückert as Theodor Körner
- Arthur Wellin as Major von Lützow
- Mary Kid as Toni Adamberger, actress at the Burgtheater
- Paul Bildt as Napoleon Bonaparte
- 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
- Albert Steinrück as Ludwig van Beethoven
- Friedrich Kühne as Klemens von Metternich
- 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
- Paul Marx as Hardenberg
- Eugen Jensen as Freiherr vom Stein
- Josef Karma as Direktor des Burgtheaters
- Hugo Döblin as Burgtheaterfaktotum
- Emil Sondermann as Lubrication director
- Theodor Burghardt
References
- Prawer, Siegbert Salomon (2005). Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933. Film Europa. Berghahn Books. p. 207. ISBN 1845453034. JSTOR j.ctt9qd8qp.
External links
- Lützow's Wild Hunt at IMDb
- Video on YouTube
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