With Heart and Hand for the Fatherland
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| Directed by | Jacob Fleck Luise Fleck |
| Written by | Jacob Fleck Luise Fleck |
| Produced by | Anton Kolm |
| Starring | Hubert Marischka Hermann Benke Liane Haid |
| Music by | Franz Lehár |
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Running time | 82 minutes |
| Country | Austro-Hungarian Empire |
| Languages | Silent German intertitles |
With Heart and Hand for the Fatherland (German: Mit Herz und Hand fürs Vaterland) is a 1915 Austrian silent war drama film directed by Jacob Fleck and Luise Fleck and starring Hubert Marischka, Hermann Benke and Liane Haid. The composer Franz Lehár, better known for his operetta, created a score to accompany the film during screenings.
A patriotic story designed to support Austria's war effort during the First World War, it marked the screen debut of actress Liane Haid who went on be a leading screen star.[1]
Plot
[edit]A reserve officer in the Tyrolean Rifles leaves his family go and fight on the Italian Front.
Cast
[edit]- Hubert Marischka
- Margarete Thumann
- Liane Haid
- Hermann Benke
- Karl Baumgartner
- Franz Felix
- Viktoria Pohl-Meiser
- Polly Janisch
- Louis Seeman
- Max Neufeld
- Hermann Romberg
References
[edit]- ^ Von Dassanowsky p.24
Bibliography
[edit]- Robert Von Dassanowsky. Austrian Cinema: A History. McFarland, 2005.
External links
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Categories:
- 1915 films
- Austro-Hungarian drama films
- Austrian silent feature films
- Films directed by Jacob Fleck
- Films directed by Luise Fleck
- Austrian black-and-white films
- 1910s war drama films
- Austrian World War I films
- Austrian war drama films
- 1915 drama films
- Silent war drama films
- 1910s German-language films
- German-language war drama films
- Austrian film stubs