''Colonel Redl'' (German: ''Oberst Redl'') is a 1925 Austrian silent

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...

directed by Hans Otto and starring

Robert Valberg Robert Valberg (28 April 1884 – 15 October 1955) was an Austrian stage and film actor. Selected filmography * ''The Traitress'' (1911) * '' Ivan Koschula'' (1914) * '' The Silent Mill'' (1914) * '' Laugh Bajazzo'' (1915) * '' Money in the Street ...

Eugen Neufeld Eugen Neufeld (6 December 1882 in Göding – 18 October 1950 in Vienna) was an Austrian-Jewish film actor. He was the older brother of actor and director Max Neufeld. Siegbert Salomon Prawer, ''Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German a ...

and Harry Norbert.Holmes & Silverman p.152 It portrays the career of the Austrian Army Officer

Alfred Redl Alfred Redl (14 March 1864 – 25 May 1913) was an Austro-Hungarian military officer who rose to head the '' Evidenzbureau'', the counterintelligence wing of the General Staff of the Austro-Hungarian Army. He was one of the leading figures of pr ...

, exposed as a foreign agent shortly before the

First World War World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War I, Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting to ...

Cast

as Oberst Alfred Redl *

as Oberst Ullmanitzky * Harry Norbert as Oberstleutnant Jamischewicz *

Albert von Kersten Albert von Kersten (1889–1937) was an Austrian stage and film actor.Giesen p.191 Selected filmography * '' Serge Panine'' (1922) * '' Fatme's Rescue'' (1922) * '' Gypsy Love'' (1922) * '' William Ratcliff'' (1922) * '' The Hell of Barballo'' (1 ...

as Major Wierenkoff * Eugen Dumont as Kriegsminister Rußlands *

Dagny Servaes Dagny Servaes (10 March 1894 – 10 July 1961) was a German-Austrian stage and film actress. In the theatre she appeared in the productions of Max ReinhardtStyan p.89 and Berthold Brecht. Servaes appeared in around sixty films during her career, ...

as Sonja Uraskow * Ellen Reith as Hauptmann Erdmann's Braut * Carlos Gerspach as Hauptmann Erdmann * Louis Seeman as Gendarmerieoberst Boreff * Julius Stärk as Auditor * Mella Baffa * Louis Erdmann

References

Bibliography

* Deborah Holmes & Lisa Silverman. ''Interwar Vienna: Culture Between Tradition and Modernity''. Camden House, 2009.

External links

* 1925 films 1920s spy drama films Silent Austrian drama films Austrian silent feature films Films directed by Hans Otto Austrian black-and-white films Films set in Vienna Films set in the 1910s 1925 drama films 1920s German-language films German-language drama films {{1920s-Austria-film-stub