Christian Wahnschaffe
1920 film
- Jakob Wassermann (novel)
- Paul Georg
- Bobby E. Lüthge
- Hans Behrendt
- Conrad Veidt
- Fritz Kortner
- Werner Krauss
- Max Lutze [de] (Part I)
- Willy Hameister (Part II)
- Giuseppe Becce (Part I)
- Alexander Schirmann [de] (Part II)
Production
company
company
Terra Film
Release dates
- 12 November 1920 (1920-11-12) (Part I)
- 30 March 1921 (1921-03-30) (Part II)
Running time
- 77 minutes (Part I)
- 75 minutes (Part II)
- Silent
- German intertitles
Christian Wahnschaffe is a 1920 German silent drama film directed by Urban Gad and starring Conrad Veidt, Lillebil Ibsen, Hermann Vallentin and Fritz Kortner.[1] It was released in two parts World Ablaze (Weltbrand) in November 1920 and The Escape from the Golden Prison (Die Flucht aus dem goldenen Kerker) in March 1921. It is an adaptation of the novel of the same title by Jakob Wassermann. The film is extant, and was restored in 2018 by the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung.[2]
The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert A. Dietrich.
Cast
Part 1: World Ablaze
- Conrad Veidt as Christian Wahnschaffe
- Lillebil Ibsen as Eva Sorel
- Hermann Vallentin as Cardillac
- Hugo Flink
- Fritz Kortner as Iwan Becker
- Ernst Matray [de; fr; hu; mg; ru]
- Theodor Loos as Amadeus Voß
- Helga Molander as Laetitia
- Leopold von Ledebur as Großfürst
- Frida Richard as Arbeiterfrau
- Franz Sutton as Arbeiter Kroll
- Josef Peterhans as Geheimagent des Großfürsten
- Paula Barra
- Fritz Feld
- Sadjah Gezza [de]
- Paul Graetz
- Ilka Grüning
- Esther Hagan
- Leopoldine Konstantin
- Maria Reisenhofer
- Margarete Schlegel
- Reinhold Schünzel
- Sylvia Torf [de]
- Rosa Valetti
- Aruth Wartan
Part 2: The Escape from the Golden Prison
- Conrad Veidt as Christian Wahnschaffe
- Magda Madeleine [de] as Wahnschaffes Geliebte
- Werner Krauss as Niels Heinrich
- Ernst Pröckl as Amadeus Voß
- Esther Hagan as Dirne Karen Engelschall
- Margarete Kupfer as Mutter Engelschall
- Rose Müller as Ruth Hofmann
- Fritz Feld as Idiot
- Ernst Dernburg
- Ilka Grüning
- Emil Heyse [de]
- Lillebil Ibsen
- Jenny Marba [de]
- Hella Moja
- Reinhold Schünzel
References
Bibliography
- Grange, William (2008). Cultural Chronicle of the Weimar Republic. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-5967-8.
- Soister, John T. (2002). Conrad Veidt on Screen: A Comprehensive Illustrated Filmography. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-1289-1.
External links
- Part I at IMDb
- Part II at IMDb
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Films directed by Urban Gad
- The Abyss (Afgrunden) (1910)
- Heißes Blut (1911)
- The Moth (Nachtfalter) (1911)
- Den sorte drøm (1911)
- Im großen Augenblick (1911)
- Der fremde Vogel (1911)
- Dyrekøbt glimmer
- The Traitress (Die Verräterin) (1911)
- Den store flyver
- Die Macht des Goldes (1912)
- Poor Jenny (Die arme Jenny) (1912)
- Zu Tode gehetzt (1912)
- Der Totentanz (1912)
- Die Kinder des Generals (1912)
- Wenn die Maske fällt (1912)
- Det berygtede Hus
- A Romany Spy (Das Mädchen ohne Vaterland) (1912)
- Behind Comedy's Mask (Komödianten) (1913)
- Jugend und Tollheit (1913)
- Die Sünden der Väter (1913)
- Der Tod in Sevilla (1913)
- Die Suffragette (1913)
- S 1 (1913)
- The Film Primadonna (Die Filmprimadonna) (1913)
- Engelein - Mimisches Lustspiel (1913)
- Emma og Urban Gad i hjemmet (1913)
- Little Angel (Engelein) (1914)
- Das Kind ruft (1914)
- Zapata's Gang (Zapatas Bande) (1914)
- Das Feuer (1914)
- Standrechtlich erschossen (1914)
- Das Feuer. Die alte Gnädige (1914)
- Frontstairs and Backstairs (Vordertreppe - Hintertreppe) (1915)
- Die Tochter der Landstraße (1915)
- The False Asta Nielsen (Die falsche Asta Nielsen) (1915)
- Die ewige Nacht (1915)
- Engeleins Hochzeit (1916)
- The White Roses (Die weißen Rosen) (1916)
- Cinderella (Aschenbrödel) (1916)
- Der rote Streifen (1916)
- Der breite Weg (1917)
- Die verschlossene Tür (1917)
- Klosterfriede (1917)
- Die Vergangenheit rächt sich (1917)
- Die Gespensterstunde (1917)
- Vera Panina (1918)
- Die neue Daliah (1918)
- Die Kleptomanin (1918)
- Der schuldlose Verdacht (1918)
- Der Schmuck des Rajah (1918)
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- Das Spiel von Liebe und Tod (1919)
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- What a Girl (1920)
- Der Abgrund der Seelen (1920)
- Ich bin Du (1921)
- Mein Mann - Der Nachtredakteur (1921)
- The Love Corridor (1921)
- The Poisoned Stream (1921)
- The Island of the Lost (1921)
- Hannele's Journey to Heaven (1922)
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