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The Burgomaster of Stilemonde

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Story by
  
Maurice Maeterlinck

Language
  
English

Director
  
George Banfield

Country
  
United Kingdom

Release date
  
Trade Show: January 1929General: 20 May 1929

Distributed by
  
Woolf & Freedman Film Service

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Genres
  
Drama, War film, Silent film

Cast
  
John Martin-Harvey
(Cyrille van Belle),
Fern Andra
(Isabelle Hilmer),
Robert Andrews
(Lt Otto Hilmer),
John F Hamilton
(Odilion van Belle),
Oswald Lingard
(Father de Coninck)

The Burgomaster of Stilemonde is a 1929 British silent drama film directed by George Banfield and starring John Martin Harvey, Fern Andra and Robert Andrews. It was made at Walthamstow Studios and on location in Belgium. It was based on the 1918 play Le Bourgmestre de Stilmonde by Maurice Maeterlinck. Like the play, it portrays German atrocities during the First World War occupation of Belgium. It was well-received by critics.

Contents

Cast

  • John Martin Harvey as Cyrille van Belle (The Burgomaster)
  • Fern Andra as Isabelle Hilmer
  • Robert Andrews as Lt. Otto Hilmer
  • John F. Hamilton as Odilion van Belle
  • Fred Raynham as Baron von Rochow
  • Wilfred Shine as Claus
  • A.B. Imeson as Capt. Karl von Shernberg
  • Oswald Lingard as Father de Coninck
  • Kinsey Peile as Sheriff Vermandel
  • Mickey Brantford as Flores
  • Adeline Hayden Coffin
  • C.V. France

    • Bibliography

  • Low, Rachael. History of the British Film, 1918-1929. George Allen & Unwin, 1971.

    • References

    The Burgomaster of Stilemonde Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA

    The Burgomaster of Stilemonde IMDb


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