The Secret Courier (German: Der geheime Kurier) is a 1928 German silent adventure film directed by Gennaro Righelli and starring Lil Dagover, Ivan Mozzhukhin and Agnes Petersen.[1] It is based on the classic novel The Red and the Black by Stendhal, which Righelli later remade as a sound film The Courier of the King in 1947. The film was shot at the Terra Studios in Berlin. The film's art direction was by Otto Erdmann and Hans Sohnle.
| The Secret Courier | |
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| Directed by | Gennaro Righelli |
| Written by | Curt J. Braun Walter Jonas Stendhal (novel The Red and the Black) |
| Produced by | Marcel Hellman Herman Millakowsky |
| Starring | Lil Dagover Ivan Mozzhukhin Agnes Petersen |
| Cinematography | Friedrich Weinmann |
| Music by | Giuseppe Becce |
Production company | Greenbaum-Film |
| Distributed by | Terra Film |
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Running time | 116 minutes |
| Country | Germany |
| Languages | Silent German intertitles |
Cast
edit- Lil Dagover as Mme. Thérèse de Renal
- Ivan Mozzhukhin as Julien Sorel
- Agnes Petersen as Mathilde de la Môle
- Félix de Pomés as Norbert de la Môle
- Valeria Blanka as Innkeeper's Daughter
- Hubert von Meyerinck as Duc d'Orléans
- José Davert as Mayor Rénal
- Jean Dax as Marquis de la Môle
- Dillo Lombardi as Abbé
References
edit- ^ Bock & Bergfelder p.77
Bibliography
edit- Hans-Michael Bock and Tim Bergfelder. The Concise Cinegraph: An Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.
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