''The Lady from Argentina'' (German: ''Das Fräulein aus Argentinien'') is a 1928 German

silent film A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, w ...

directed by

Siegfried Philippi Siegfried Philippi, born Siegfried Salomon Philipp (31 July 1871 – 29 February 1936) was a German screenwriter and film director.Grange p.217 Selected filmography * '' Mountain Air'' (1917) * '' Madeleine'' (1919) * '' Dancer of Death'' (1920) ...

and starring

Hans Albers Hans Philipp August Albers (22 September 1891 – 24 July 1960) was a German actor and singer. He was the biggest male movie star in Germany between 1930 and 1960 and one of the most popular German actors of the twentieth century. Early life ...

.Parish p.4 The film's sets were designed by the

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Gustav A. Knauer Gustav A. Knauer (1886–1950) was a German art director.Gemünden p.171 He designed the sets of more than a hundred films during his career. Selected filmography * '' The White Roses of Ravensberg'' (1919) * ''The Flight into Marriage'' (1922) * ...

and

Willy Schiller Willy Schiller (11 August 1899 – 17 July 1973) was a German art director.Allan & Sandford p.3 In the later part of his career he worked for DEFA, the East German state-controlled film studio. Selected filmography * '' Radio Magic'' (1927) * '' ...

Cast

In alphabetical order *

Gerd Briese Gerd Briese (25 December 1897 – August 1957) was a German stage and film actor. Briese's film career began in 1924, and he late worked as a stage actor and director. He was killed in a traffic accident in Berlin in 1957, aged 59. Selected fil ...

Olga Engl Olga Engl (30 May 1871 – 21 September 1946) was an Austrian-German stage and motion picture actress who appeared in nearly 200 films. Biography Engl was privately educated in an Ursuline monastery and began her acting career at the Prague C ...

* Robert Garrison *

Gritta Ley Gritta Ley was a German film actress of the silent era.Goble p.484 Selected filmography * '' The Marriage Nest'' (1927) * '' Girls, Beware!'' (1928) * '' The Criminal of the Century'' (1928) * '' Autumn on the Rhine'' (1928) * ''The Lady from Arg ...

Gerhard Ritterband Gerhard Ritterband (1904–1959) was a German film actor.Hardt p.223 Selected filmography * '' The Doll'' (1919) * '' The Princess of the Nile'' (1920) * '' Va banque'' (1920) * '' A Day on Mars'' (1921) * '' Four Around a Woman'' (1921) * '' The ...

Hermine Sterler Minna Stern (20 March 1894 – 25 May 1982), known professionally as Hermine Sterler, was a German-American actress whose career spanned both the silent and the talkie film eras on two continents. Career Sterler, who appeared in several Hol ...

Jakob Tiedtke Jakob Karl Heinrich Wilhelm Tiedtke (23 June 1875 – 30 June 1960) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 190 films between 1914 and 1955. Selected filmography * ''The Pied Piper of Hamelin'' (1918) * '' The Doll'' (1919) * '' ...

Leopold von Ledebur Leopold von Ledebur (18 May 1876 – 22 August 1955) was a German stage and film actor. Selected filmography * ''Carmen'' (1918) * ''The Serenyi'' (1918) * ''Midnight'' (1918) * ''The Foolish Heart'' (1919) * '' The Golden Lie'' (1919) * '' T ...

References

Bibliography

* Parish, Robert. ''Film Actors Guide''. Scarecrow Press, 1977.

External links

* 1928 films Films of the Weimar Republic Films directed by Siegfried Philippi German silent feature films German black-and-white films {{Germany-silent-film-stub