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The Boy in Blue (1919 film)

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Director
  
F. W. Murnau

Produced by
  
Ernst Hofmann

Writer
  
Edda Ottershausen

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Genre
  
Drama

Duration
  

Country
  
Weimar Republic

The Boy in Blue (1919 film) movie poster
Language
  
Silent German intertitles

Release date
  
July 1919 (1919-07)

Cast
  
Ernst Hofmann, Marie von Buelow

Cinematography
  
Karl Freund, Carl Hoffmann

Similar movies
  
Related F W Murnau movies

The Boy in Blue (German: Der Knabe in Blau and also known as Emerald of Death) is a 1919 silent German drama film directed by F. W. Murnau. It was Murnau's directorial debut. The film is now considered to be a lost film, though the Deutsche Kinemathek film archive possesses 35 small fragments ranging from two to eleven frames in length.

Thomas Gainsborough's painting The Blue Boy and Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray were inspirations for Murnau to create this film.

Cast

  • Ernst Hofmann as Thomas von Weerth
  • Blandine Ebinger asSchöne Zigeunerin / Fair gypsy
  • Margit Barnay as Junge Schauspielerin / Young actress
  • Karl Platen as Alter Diener / Old servant
  • Georg John as Zigeuner-Hauptmann / Gypsy commander
  • Leonhard Haskel as Theaterdirektor
  • Marie von Buelow as Bettlerin
  • Rudolf Klix as Bobby
  • Hedda Kemp as Dame im Schleier
  • Hans Otterhausen as Guckkastenmann
  • Hans Schaup as Der alte Dietrich / Thomas' Diener
  • References

    The Boy in Blue (1919 film) Wikipedia
    The Boy in Blue (1919 film) IMDb