''Countess Donelli'' (German: ''Gräfin Donelli'') is a 1924 German
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. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super ...
directed by
G. W. Pabst and starring
Paul Hansen,
Henny Porten
Frieda Ulricke "Henny" Porten (7 January 1890 – 15 October 1960) was a German actress and film producer of the silent era, and Germany's first major film star. She appeared in more than 170 films between 1906 and 1955.
Biography
Frieda Ulrick ...
and
Ferdinand von Alten
Ferdinand is a Germanic name composed of the elements "protection", "peace" (PIE "to love, to make peace") or alternatively "journey, travel", Proto-Germanic , abstract noun from root "to fare, travel" (PIE , "to lead, pass over"), and "c ...
. The film is considered to be
lost.
The film's sets were designed by the
art director Hermann Warm
Hermann Warm was a German art director for films. Born in 1889 (died 1976) in Berlin, Germany, Warm was an important figure in the expressionist movement of the 1920s. Warm entered the German film industry in 1912 after working on-stage for a whil ...
.
Cast
*
Paul Hansen as Graf Donelli
*
Henny Porten
Frieda Ulricke "Henny" Porten (7 January 1890 – 15 October 1960) was a German actress and film producer of the silent era, and Germany's first major film star. She appeared in more than 170 films between 1906 and 1955.
Biography
Frieda Ulrick ...
as Mathilde, seine Frau
*
Friedrich Kayßler as Graf Bergheim
* Eberhard Leithoff as Hellwig, Privatsekretär
*
Ferdinand von Alten
Ferdinand is a Germanic name composed of the elements "protection", "peace" (PIE "to love, to make peace") or alternatively "journey, travel", Proto-Germanic , abstract noun from root "to fare, travel" (PIE , "to lead, pass over"), and "c ...
as Baron von Trachwitz
* Lantelme Dürer
*
Karl Etlinger
Karl Etlinger (16 October 1879 – 8 May 1946) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 110 films between 1914 and 1946.
Selected filmography
* '' The Eternal Curse'' (1921)
* '' The Poisoned Stream'' (1921)
* ''The Films of Princ ...
See also
*
List of lost films
For this list of lost films, a lost film is defined as one of which no part of a print is known to have survived. For films in which any portion of the footage remains (including trailers), see List of incomplete or partially lost films.
R ...
References
External links
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''Grafin Donelli'' at SilentEra
1924 films
1924 drama films
1924 lost films
German drama films
German silent feature films
German black-and-white films
Films directed by G. W. Pabst
Films of the Weimar Republic
Lost German films
Lost drama films
Silent drama films
1920s German films
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