''Colonel Chabert'' (german: Oberst Chabert) is a 1920 German

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directed by and starring

Eugen Burg Eugen Burg (6 January 1871 – 17 April 1944) was a German actor. His daughter was Hansi Burg. Burg was a close friend of the actor Hans Albers. Burg was born Eugen Hirschburg into a Jewish family, but later converted to Protestantism. He was ba ...

. It is an adaptation of

Honoré de Balzac Honoré de Balzac ( , more commonly , ; born Honoré Balzac;Jean-Louis Dega, La vie prodigieuse de Bernard-François Balssa, père d'Honoré de Balzac : Aux sources historiques de La Comédie humaine, Rodez, Subervie, 1998, 665 p. 20 May 179 ...

's 1832 novel '' Colonel Chabert''.

Cast

as Oberst Chabert *

Wanda Treumann Wanda Treumann (born Wanda Reich; 17 November 1883 – 29 April 1963) was a German theatre and film actress and film producer of the silent era.Elsaesser & Wedel p.108 A leading lady in a number of productions during the Imperial era and the Wei ...

as Doppelrolle *

Oskar Marion Oskar Marion (2 April 1896 – March 1986) was an Austrian film actor. Life Born as Oskar Viktor Lepka in Brno on 2 April 1896. His parents were physician Antonín Lepka and Žofie Lepková (née Müller). Marion went to study medicine to Vie ...

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Max Laurence Friedrich Rudolf Max Laurence (5 August 1852 – 26 May 1926) was a German stage and film actor. Selected filmography * '' Where Is Coletti?'' (1913) * '' The Dancer'' (1915) * '' Hans und Hanni'' (1915) * '' Mountain Air'' (1917) * ''Diary of a ...

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* 1920 films Films of the Weimar Republic German silent feature films Films directed by Eugen Burg German black-and-white films 1920s historical drama films Napoleonic Wars films Films set in the 1810s Films based on works by Honoré de Balzac Films based on French novels German historical drama films 1920 drama films Silent historical drama films 1920s German films 1920s German-language films Works based on Colonel Chabert {{1920s-Germany-film-stub