''Count Cohn'' (German: ''Graf Cohn'') is a 1923 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
Carl Boese
Carl Eduard Hermann Boese (; 26 August 1887 – 6 July 1958) was a German film director, screenwriter, and producer. He directed 158 films between 1917 and 1957.
Selected filmography
* ''Farmer Borchardt'' (1917)
* ''Donna Lucia'' (1918)
* ''T ...
and starring
Hermann Vallentin
Hermann Vallentin (24 May 1872 – 18 September 1945) was a German actor.
Biography
Hermann Vallentin was born in Berlin in 1872. He was the son of a Jewish timber merchant and factory owner, Felix Vallentin. He was the older brother of actress ...
,
Frida Richard
Frida Richard (born Friederike Raithel, 1 November 1873 – 12 September 1946) was an Austrian actress.
Selected filmography
* '' The Sin of Helga Arndt'' (1916)
* '' The Queen's Love Letter'' (1916)
* '' The Marriage of Luise Rohrbach'' (1917)
...
and
Bernd Aldor
Bernd is a Low German short form of the given name Bernhard (English Bernard).
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The following people share the name Bernd.
*Bernd Brückler (born 1981), Austrian hockey player
*Bernd Eichinger (1949–2011), ...
.
[Bock & Bergfelder p.168]
The film's sets were designed by the
art director Kurt Richter
Kurt Paul Otto Joseph Richter (24 November 1900 – 29 December 1969) was a German chess International Master and chess writer.
Chess achievements
In 1922, Richter for the first time won the Berlin City Chess Championship. In 1928, he tied ...
.
Cast
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Hermann Vallentin
Hermann Vallentin (24 May 1872 – 18 September 1945) was a German actor.
Biography
Hermann Vallentin was born in Berlin in 1872. He was the son of a Jewish timber merchant and factory owner, Felix Vallentin. He was the older brother of actress ...
as Siegfried Cohn
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Frida Richard
Frida Richard (born Friederike Raithel, 1 November 1873 – 12 September 1946) was an Austrian actress.
Selected filmography
* '' The Sin of Helga Arndt'' (1916)
* '' The Queen's Love Letter'' (1916)
* '' The Marriage of Luise Rohrbach'' (1917)
...
as Frau Cohn
*
Bernd Aldor
Bernd is a Low German short form of the given name Bernhard (English Bernard).
List of persons with given name Bernd
The following people share the name Bernd.
*Bernd Brückler (born 1981), Austrian hockey player
*Bernd Eichinger (1949–2011), ...
as Isidor
*
Elisabeth Pinajeff
Elisabeth Pinajeff (born Elizabeta Sergeyevna Pinayeva; russian: Елизавета Сергеевна Пинаева, 17 April 1900 – 31 December 1995) was a Russian-German actress.Prawer p.87
Selected filmography
* '' Count Cohn'' (1923)
* ' ...
as Recha
*
Grete Hollmann
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*Grete Daut ( ...
as Eva
*
Rudolf Lettinger
Rudolf Lettinger (26 October 1865 in Hamburg – 21 March 1937 in Berlin-Schöneberg) was a German stage and film actor. He made his stage debut in 1883 when he played the role of Kosinsky in Friedrich Schiller's drama ''The Robbers''. Some of ...
as Christian Schmidt
*
Fritz Richard
Fritz Richard (born Josef Richard Löwit; 17 November 1869 – 9 February 1933) was an Austrian actor and theatre director.
Fritz Richard was born as Josef Richard Löwit in Chotěboř, Austria-Hungary into a Jewish family.
Richard trained as a ...
as Dr. Krause
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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 Gräfin Thekla Holm
*
Xenia Desni
Xenia Desni (Ukrainian language, Ukrainian: Ксенія Десні; 19 January 1894 – 27 May 1962) was a Ukrainian silent films, silent screen era actress who predominantly appeared in German films.
Early life
Densi was born Ksenia Desnytska i ...
as Comtesse Dora
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Johannes Riemann
Johannes Riemann (31 May 1888 – 30 September 1959) was a German actor and film director. Riemann was a member of the Nazi Party.Ernst Klee (2007) ''Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich: Wer war was vor und nach 1945''. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Ver ...
as Baron Heinz von Sternau
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Albert Patry
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Companies
* Albert (supermarket), a supermarket chain in the Czech Republic
* Albert Heijn, a supermarket chain in the Netherlands
* Albert Market, a street market in The Gambia
* Albert Productions, a record label
* Albert C ...
as Graf v. Klettingen
*
Willy Kaiser-Heyl
Willy Kaiser-Heyl (4 August 1876 – 2 December 1953) was a German film actor. He appeared in 92 films between 1919 and 1952. He was born in Frankfurt, Germany and died in Berlin.
Selected filmography
* '' The Tragedy of a Great'' (1920)
* ...
as Verlagsbuchhändler v. Gellert
*
Max Willenz as Buchhalter Weller
References
Bibliography
* Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009.
External links
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1923 films
Films of the Weimar Republic
Films directed by Carl Boese
German silent feature films
German black-and-white films
Films based on German novels
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