''Column X'' () is a 1929
German
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* Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language
** For citizenship in Germany, see also Ge ...
silent crime film
Crime film is a film belonging to the crime fiction genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and fiction. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine with many other genres, such as Drama (film and television), dr ...
directed by
Reinhold Schünzel
Reinhold Schünzel (7 November 1888 – 11 November 1954) was a German actor and director, active in both Germany and the United States. The son of a German father and a Jewish mother, he was born in St. Pauli, the poorest part of Hamburg. Despit ...
and starring Schünzel,
Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur
Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur (6 March 1886 – 13 May 1960) was a German film actor.
Early life
Stahl-Nachbaur was born in Munich, Germany and died at age 74 in West Berlin.
Selected filmography
* ''Das Geschlecht der Schelme. 1. Teil'' (1917)
* '' ...
and
Grete Reinwald
Grete Reinwald (25 May 1902 – 24 May 1983) was a German stage and film actress. As a child, due to her sweet, appealing features she modeled for many monochrome, hand-tinted and autochrome postcards. Her siblings Hanni Reinwald and Otto Rein ...
. The film attempted to imitate the style of American crime films, switched to a German setting.
[Prawer p. 89] It was shot at the
Tempelhof Studios
The Tempelhof Studios are a film studio located in Tempelhof in the German capital of Berlin. They were founded in 1912, during the silent era, by German film pioneer Alfred Duskes, who built a glass-roofed studio on the site with financial back ...
in
Berlin
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and premiered at the city's
Marmorhaus
The Marmorhaus (English: Marble House) was a movie theater, cinema that used to be located on the Kurfürstendamm in Berlin. Opened in 1913, it takes its name from a large marble façade. Designed by the architect Hugo Pál, the walls of the foyer ...
cinema.
Cast
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Reinhold Schünzel
Reinhold Schünzel (7 November 1888 – 11 November 1954) was a German actor and director, active in both Germany and the United States. The son of a German father and a Jewish mother, he was born in St. Pauli, the poorest part of Hamburg. Despit ...
as Robert Sandt, Führer der Kolonne X
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Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur
Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur (6 March 1886 – 13 May 1960) was a German film actor.
Early life
Stahl-Nachbaur was born in Munich, Germany and died at age 74 in West Berlin.
Selected filmography
* ''Das Geschlecht der Schelme. 1. Teil'' (1917)
* '' ...
as Kriminalkommissar Weigert
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Grete Reinwald
Grete Reinwald (25 May 1902 – 24 May 1983) was a German stage and film actress. As a child, due to her sweet, appealing features she modeled for many monochrome, hand-tinted and autochrome postcards. Her siblings Hanni Reinwald and Otto Rein ...
as Irene Mahler
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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 ...
as Tant Eulalia
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Oskar Sima
Oskar Sima (31 July 1896 – 24 June 1969) was an Austrian actor who is best remembered for appearing in supporting roles in countless comedy films from the 1930s to the 1960s.
Born in Hohenau an der March, Lower Austria, Sima attended high sc ...
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Arthur Duarte
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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 D ...
as Mitglied der Kolonne X
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Otto Wallburg
Otto Wallburg (21 February 1889 – 29 October 1944) was a German actor and Kabarett performer. He was a prolific film actor during the late silent and early sound era. He was arrested by the Nazis when they occupied the Netherlands and was kil ...
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1929 films
Films of the Weimar Republic
German silent feature films
German crime films
Films directed by Reinhold Schünzel
1929 crime films
German black-and-white films
1920s German films
Films shot at Tempelhof Studios
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