The Legacy of Pretoria

1934 film

Walter Wassermann
Ludwig von Wohl (novel)

Produced by

Gustl Lautenbacher
Otto Ernst Lubitz

Starring

Paul Hartmann
Charlotte Susa
Paul Henckels

CinematographyKarl HasselmannEdited byGottlieb MadlMusic byHans Carste

Production
companies

Bavaria Film
Atalanta-Film

Distributed byBavaria Film

Release date

19 October 1934 (1934-10-19)

Running time

95 minutesCountryGermanyLanguageGerman

The Legacy of Pretoria (German: Das Erbe von Pretoria) is a 1934 German drama film directed by Johannes Meyer and starring Paul Hartmann, Charlotte Susa and Paul Henckels.^[1] It was based on the novel Die Reise nach Pretoria by Ludwig von Wohl. A German man inherits a business in South Africa, but struggles to run it.

It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich. The film's sets were designed by the art director Max Seefelder.

Cast

Paul Hartmann as Bernhard Fredersen
Charlotte Susa as Agnes Fredersen
Paul Henckels as Petermann
Philipp Manning as Admiral Wiethaus
Max Weydner as William Spencer
Gustaf Gründgens as Eugen Schliebach
Lilo Müller as Ines
Kurt Vespermann as Hans Joachim Förster
Walter Lantzsch as Captain Husemann
Richard Ryen as Georg Miller
Philipp Veit as Gehelmrat Klinger
Fita Benkhoff as Lilly Clausen
Josef Eichheim as Diener Karl

References

^ Bock & Bergfelder p. 193

Bibliography

Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9.