The Weavers (1927 film)
1927 film
- Gerhart Hauptmann (play)
- Fanny Carlsen
- Willy Haas
- Paul Wegener
- Valeska Stock
- Hermann Picha
- Hertha von Walther
- Frederik Fuglsang
- Friedrich Weinmann
Production
company
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Zelnik-Film
Release date
- 14 May 1927 (1927-05-14)
Running time
- Silent
- German intertitles
The Weavers (German: Die Weber) is a 1927 German silent historical drama film directed by Frederic Zelnik and starring Paul Wegener, Valeska Stock and Hermann Picha. The film is based on the 1892 play of the same title by Gerhart Hauptmann based on a historical event.[1] The film's art direction was by Andrej Andrejew.
Synopsis
During the 1840s a group of Silesian weavers stage an uprising due to their concerns about the Industrial Revolution's impact of their lives.
Cast
- Paul Wegener as Fabrikant Dreißiger
- Valeska Stock as Frau Dreißiger
- Hermann Picha as Baumert
- Hertha von Walther as Emma, dessen Tochter
- Camilla von Hollay as Bertha, dessen Tochter
- Arthur Kraußneck as Der alte Hilse
- Hans Heinrich von Twardowski as Gottfried Hilse, sein Sohn
- Dagny Servaes as Luise Hise, dessen Frau
- William Dieterle as Moritz Jäger
- Theodor Loos as Bäcker
- Georg John as Ansorge
- Georg Burghardt as Pastor Kittelhaus
- Hanne Brinkmann as Frau Kittelhaus
- Julius Brandt as Neumann
- Emil Lind as Expedient Pfeiffer
- Hans Stemberg as Gendarm Kutsche
- Willy Kruszinski as Polizeimeister
- Emil Biron as König Friedrich Wilhelm IV
References
- ^ Prawer p. 208
Bibliography
- Prawer, S.S. Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910–1933. Berghahn Books, 2005.
External links
- The Weavers at IMDb
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The films of Frederic Zelnik
- His Majesty the Hypochondriac (1918)
- The Heiress of the Count of Monte Cristo (1919)
- Charlotte Corday (1919)
- Kri-Kri, the Duchess of Tarabac (1920)
- Anna Karenina (1920)
- Fanny Elssler (1920)
- Count Varenne's Lover (1921)
- Trix, the Romance of a Millionairess (1921)
- The Girl from Piccadilly (1921)
- Miss Beryll (1921)
- Memoirs of a Film Actress (1921)
- Count Festenberg (1922)
- Napoleon's Daughter (1922)
- Insulted and Humiliated (1922)
- The Mistress of the King (1922)
- Yvette, the Fashion Princess (1922)
- The Marriage of Princess Demidoff (1922)
- Tania, the Woman in Chains (1922)
- Lyda Ssanin (1923)
- The Men of Sybill (1923)
- The Girl from Hell (1923)
- Resurrection (1923)
- Daisy (1923)
- Irene of Gold (1923)
- The Girl from Capri (1924)
- The Mistress of Monbijou (1924)
- Marionettes of the Princess (1924)
- The Sailor Perugino (1924)
- Nelly, the Bride Without a Husband (1924)
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- The Venus of Montmartre (1925)
- Letters Which Never Reached Him (1925)
- The Bohemian Dancer (1926)
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- The Blue Danube (1926)
- Fadette (1926)
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- The Gypsy Baron (1927)
- Mariett Dances Today (1928)
- Mary Lou (1928)
- My Heart is a Jazz Band (1929)
- The Crimson Circle (1929)
- Everyone Asks for Erika (1931)
- The Forester's Daughter (1931)
- The Dancer of Sanssouci (1932)
- Happy (1933)
- The Emperor's Waltz (1933)
- Southern Roses (1936)
- The Lilac Domino (1937)
- Daddy Long Legs (1938)
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