The Man with the Limp

1928 film
  • Willy Reiber
  • Franz Seitz
Written by
  • Hermanna Barkhausen
  • Joseph Dalman
  • Peter Oldfield (novel)
Starring
  • Christa Tordy
  • Alfred Abel
  • Carmen Cartellieri
CinematographyWilly Winterstein
Production
company
Münchner Lichtspielkunst
Distributed byBavaria Film
Release date
  • 4 January 1928 (1928-01-04)
CountryGermanyLanguages
  • Silent
  • German intertitles

The Man with the Limp (German:Das Geheimnis von Genf) is a 1928 German silent film directed by Willy Reiber and Franz Seitz and starring Christa Tordy, Alfred Abel and Carmen Cartellieri.[1]

The film's art direction was by Ludwig Reiber. It was made at the Emelka Studios in Munich.

Cast

  • Christa Tordy as Betty Marshall, amerikanische Journalistin
  • Alfred Abel as Baron Enderny, ein Journalist / Varenne, der Lahme
  • Carmen Cartellieri as Madame Pique
  • Eric Barclay as René
  • Bert Bloem as John Lavington, Sekretär des Völkerbunds
  • Luigi Serventi as McHenning, Völkerbund-Delegierter
  • Ernst Reicher as Mons. Durand - Chef der Genfer Polizei
  • Georg Henrich as Graf Firbach, Minister von Nordland
  • Rolf Pinegger as Herr von Wächter, sein Sekretär
  • Olly Orska
  • Max Weydner
  • Wilhelm Stauffen
  • Julius Riedmueller
  • August Weigert

References

  1. ^ Bock & Bergfelder p.2

Bibliography

  • Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.
  • The Man with the Limp at IMDb


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