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Violantha (film)

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Directed by
  
Carl Froelich

Initial release
  
8 January 1928 (Berlin)

Music director
  
Walter Winnig

Music by
  
Walter Winnig

Director
  
Carl Froelich

Story by
  
Ernst Zahn

Produced by
  
Carl Froelich Henny Porten Wilhelm von Kaufmann

Written by
  
Ernst Zahn (novel) Walter Supper Hans Wilhelm

Starring
  
Henny Porten Mathilde Sussin William Dieterle

Cinematography
  
Robert Freckmann Axel Graatkjær Gustave Preiss

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Screenplay
  
Walter Supper, Hans Wilhelm

Cast
  
Henny Porten, Blandine Ebinger, William Dieterle, Inge Landgut, Elsa Wagner

Violantha is a 1928 German-Swiss silent film directed by Carl Froelich and starring Henny Porten, Mathilde Sussin and William Dieterle. The film is set in Switzerland and is based on a novel by Ernst Zahn. In 1942 it was remade by Paul May as a sound film under the slightly different title of Violanta.

The film's art direction was by Franz Schroedter.

Cast

  • Mathilde Sussin as Die alte Frau Renner
  • William Dieterle as Adelrich - ihr erster Sohn
  • Alexander Sascha as Marianus - ihr zweiter Sohn
  • Henny Porten as Violantha Zureich
  • Karl Platen as Jeremias Zureich / Kneipenwirt / ihr Onkel
  • Elsa Wagner as Seine Frau
  • Gerd Fricke as Xaver - sein Sohn
  • Wilhelm Diegelmann as Hofer, Gastwirt
  • Sophie Pagay as seine Frau
  • Blandine Ebinger as Bella - Kellnerin bei Zureich
  • Inge Landgut as Fini
  • Max Maximilian as Ein Viehhändler
  • References

    Violantha (film) Wikipedia