''The Hero of Every Girl's Dream'' (German: ''Der Held aller Mädchenträume'') is a 1929 German

silent film A silent film is a film with no synchronized Sound recording and reproduction, 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) ...

directed by Robert Land and starring

Harry Liedtke Harry Liedtke (12 October 1882 – 28 April 1945) was a German film actor. Early life Liedtke was born in Königsberg, East Prussia to a merchant as the seventh out of 12 children. After the death of his father in 1896, he grew up in an orphanage ...

Betty Bird Betty Bird (born Hilde Elisabeth Ptack, 18 June 1901 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary – 4 March 1998 in Rome, Italy) was an Austrian actress known for ''Die spanische Fliege'' (1931), ''Corazones sin rumbo'' (1928) and ''Sturm auf drei Herzen'' (19 ...

and

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 ...

.Rogowski p.120 The film's sets were designed by

Robert Neppach Robert Neppach (2 March 1890 – 18 August 1939) was an Austrian architect, film producer and art director. Neppach worked from 1919 in the Cinema of Germany, German film industry. He oversaw the art direction of over 80 films during his career, i ...

Cast

as Vicomte de Lormand *

as Marianne Turbon *

as Madame Turbon * Jeanne Helbling as Lolotte * Gertrud Arnold *

Oreste Bilancia Oreste Bilancia (24 September 1881 – 31 October 1945) was an Italian film actor. Born in Catania, Sicily he was a star of Italian films in the silent era. He worked during the 1920s in Weimar Germany which had the largest European film indus ...

* Karl Elzer * Charles Puffy * Max Maximilian *

Karl Platen Karl Platen (6 March 1877 – 4 July 1952) was a German actor and cinematographer known for '' Girl in the Moon'' (1929) and '' M'' (1931). Biography Karl Platen was born as Carl Platen on March 6, 1877 in Halle an der Saale, Germany. He died ...

Anton Pointner Anton Pointner (8 December 1894 in Salzburg – 8 September 1949 in Hintersee) was an Austrian stage and film actor. Pointner's career began on the stages of Austria and performed in both silent and sound films in his native Austria, as well ...

* Rosa Valetti * Marcel Vibert as Marquis de Corbé

References

Bibliography

* Prawer, S.S. ''Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933''. Berghahn Books, 2005. * Ragowski, Christian. ''The Many Faces of Weimar Cinema: Rediscovering Germany's Filmic Legacy''. Camden House, 2010.

External links

* 1929 films Films of the Weimar Republic German silent feature films Films directed by Robert Land German black-and-white films {{Germany-silent-film-stub