The Galley Slave (1919 film)
1919 film
- Paul Wegener
- Rochus Gliese
- Honoré de Balzac (novels)
- Paul Wegener
- Paul Wegener
- Lyda Salmonova
- Paul Hartmann
- Frederik Fuglsang
- Fritz Arno Wagner
Production
company
company
PAGU
Release date
- 17 October 1919 (1919-10-17)
- Silent
- German intertitles
The Galley Slave (German: Der Galeerensträfling) is a 1919 German silent historical adventure film directed by Rochus Gliese and Paul Wegener and starring Wegener, Lyda Salmonova, and Paul Hartmann.[1] Inspired by several of the novels of Honoré de Balzac including Lost Illusions, it was released in two parts on separate dates during October 1919. Although Gliese was the principal credited director, the film's star Wegener also worked on its production.
It was shot at the Templehof Studios in Berlin, with sets designed by the art director Kurt Richter.
Cast
- Paul Wegener as Colin, König der Galeerensträflinge
- Lyda Salmonova as Victorine
- Paul Hartmann as Rastignac
- Ernst Deutsch as Galeerensträfling
- Else Berna as Herzogin Maufrigneuse
- Adele Sandrock
- Lothar Müthel
- Jakob Tiedtke
- Armin Schweizer
- Hedwig Gutzeit
References
- ^ St. Pierre p.104
Bibliography
- Paul Matthew St. Pierre. Cinematography in the Weimar Republic: Lola Lola, Dirty Singles, and the Men Who Shot Them. Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.
External links
- The Galley Slave at IMDb
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Films directed by Paul Wegener
- The Student of Prague (1913)
- The Golem (1915)
- Rübezahl's Wedding (1916)
- The Yogi (1916)
- The Golem and the Dancing Girl (1917)
- Hans Trutz in the Land of Plenty (1917)
- The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1918)
- The Foreign Prince (1918)
- The Galley Slave (1919)
- The Golem (1920)
- Duke Ferrante's End (1922)
- Living Buddhas (1925)
- The Girlfriend of a Big Man (1934)
- Augustus the Strong (1936)
- Moscow–Shanghai (1936)
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