Waterloo (1929 film)
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| Directed by | Karl Grune |
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| Produced by | Max Schach |
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| Music by | Hansheinrich Dransmann |
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| Distributed by | Bavaria Film |
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Running time | 120 minutes |
| Country | Germany |
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Waterloo is a 1929 German silent war film directed by Karl Grune and starring Charles Willy Kayser, Charles Vanel and Otto Gebühr.[1] It depicts the victory of the Allied Forces over Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
It was made at the Emelka Studios of Bavaria Film in Munich. The film's sets were designed by the art director Ludwig Reiber. The film was inspired by Abel Gance's epic Napoléon and made use of similar filming techniques.[2]
Cast
[edit]- Charles Willy Kayser as Friedrich Wilhelm III
- Charles Vanel as Napoleon
- Otto Gebühr as Feldmarschall Blücher
- Auguste Prasch-Grevenberg as Blücher's Wife
- Friedrich Ulmer as Gneisenau
- Georg Henrich as Hardenberg
- Karl Graumann as Metternich
- Humberston Wright as Wellington
- Carl de Vogt as Ney
- Helmuth Renar as Talleyrand
- Vera Malinovskaya as Gräfin Tarnowska
- Camilla von Hollay as Ihre Zofe
- Oskar Marion as Leutnant Reutlingen
- Betty Bird as Rieke
- Fred Immler as Erster Grenadier
- Franz Scharwenka as Zweiter Grenadier
- Will Dohm as Graf Lagarde
References
[edit]Bibliography
[edit]- Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.
External links
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- 1929 films
- 1920s historical films
- 1929 war films
- Cultural depictions of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
- Cultural depictions of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher
- Cultural depictions of Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
- Cultural depictions of Klemens von Metternich
- Cultural depictions of Frederick William III of Prussia
- Films about Napoleon
- German historical films
- German war films
- Films of the Weimar Republic
- German silent feature films
- Films directed by Karl Grune
- Napoleonic Wars films
- Films set in 1815
- Films set in Waterloo, Belgium
- Bavaria Film films
- Films shot at Bavaria Studios
- Works about the Battle of Waterloo
- German black-and-white films
- 1920s German films
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