''Countess Maritza'' (German: ''Gräfin Mariza'') is a 1925 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

Hans Steinhoff Hans Steinhoff (10 March 1882 – 20 April 1945) was a German film director, best known for the propaganda films he made in the Nazi era. Life and career Steinhoff started his career as a stage actor in the 1900s and later worked as a stag ...

and starring

Vivian Gibson Vivian Gibson (22 October 1898 – 9 May 1981) was a British-born Austrian actress. Selected filmography * ''Demos'' (1921) * '' The Glorious Adventure'' (1922) * '' Fräulein Raffke'' (1923) * '' Countess Maritza'' (1925) * ''The King and th ...

, Harry Liedtke and Colette Brettel.Grange p.209 It is an adaptation of the operetta of the same title. The film's

art direction Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in Theatre, theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film industry, film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supe ...

was by Julius von Borsody.

Cast

as Gräfin Maritza * Harry Liedtke as Graf Tassilo * Colette Brettel as Lisa *

Fritz Spira Fritz Spira (1 August 1881 – c. 1943) was an Austrian stage and film actor. He appeared frequently in films during the silent and early sound eras. Spira played the role of the Austrian Emperor Franz Josef in the 1926 film '' The Third Squad ...

as Graf von Wittenburg * Robert Garrison as Fürst Moritz Dragomir Populescu *

Ernő Verebes Ernő Verebes (born Ernst Weiss, December 6, 1902 – June 13, 1971) was a Hungarian-American actor who began his career in Hungarian silent films in 1915. During his film career he worked and lived in Hungary, Germany and in the United States. ...

as Baron Koloman Zsupan *

Hedwig Pauly-Winterstein Hedwig Pauly-Winterstein (1866–1965) was a German stage and film actress. Selected filmography * '' The Clan'' (1920) * '' Anna Boleyn'' (1920) * '' President Barrada'' (1920) * '' Lady Godiva'' (1921) * '' The Inheritance'' (1922) * '' Trag ...

as Elvira Pranticzek *

Wilhelm Diegelmann Wilhelm Diegelmann (28 September 1861 – 1 March 1934) was a German actor. Career Diegelmann's first stage appearance was in 1878 in the chorus for the Frankfurt Opera. In 1881 he debuted at the Frankfurt City Theater, playing King Lear, Wil ...

as Penizek *

Emil Heyse Emil or Emile may refer to: Literature *''Emile, or On Education'' (1762), a treatise on education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau * ''Émile'' (novel) (1827), an autobiographical novel based on Émile de Girardin's early life *''Emil and the Detective ...

as Dr. Tarrasch *

Siegfried Berisch Siegfried Berisch (? – 4 October 1933, in Vienna), was a German-JewishSiegbert Salomon Prawer, ''Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933'', Berghahn Books (2007), p. 213 actor. Partial filmography * 192 ...

as Mendel Popper * Carl Geppert as Freier

References

Bibliography

* Grange, William. ''Cultural Chronicle of the Weimar Republic''. Scarecrow Press, 2008.

External links

* 1925 films Films of the Weimar Republic Films directed by Hans Steinhoff German silent feature films Films based on operettas Terra Film films German black-and-white films {{Germany-silent-film-stub