''The Standard-Bearer of Sedan'' (German: ''Der Fahnenträger von Sedan'') is a 1927 German silent

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directed by

Johannes Brandt Johannes Brandt (1884–1955) was an Austrian screenwriter and film director. Selected filmography Screenwriter * ''Diamonds'' (1920) * '' The Three Dances of Mary Wilford'' (1920) * '' The Call of Destiny'' (1922) * '' Felicitas Grolandin'' (192 ...

and starring

Walter Slezak Walter Slezak (; 3 May 1902 – 21 April 1983) was an Austrian-born film and stage actor active between 1922 and 1976. He mainly appeared in German films before migrating to the United States in 1930 and performing in numerous Hollywood productio ...

, Camilla von Hollay and Vera Schmiterlöw.Quinlan p.430 The film's sets were designed by the

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Robert A. Dietrich Robert A. Dietrich (28 March 1889 – 8 September 1947) was a German art director.Scheunemann p.277 He designed the sets for more than a hundred films during his career. Selected filmography * ''The Student of Prague (1913 film), The Student of P ...

Cast

* Camilla von Hollay * Vera Schmiterlöw *

Gaston Briese Gaston Briese (19 August 1898 – 22 March 1953) was a German stage and film actor. He appeared in more than forty films during his career, which spanned from the late silent era to the mid-1940s. His final appearance was in the 1946 rubble film ...

Carl Geppert Carl Geppert was a German actor. He was born on the 22nd of May 1883 in Austria-Hungary and died in Czechoslovakia on the 23rd of October 1937. He appeared in more than fifty films from 1919 to 1932. Selected filmography References Externa ...

Martin Kosleck Martin Kosleck (born Nicolaie Yoshkin; March 24, 1904 – January 15, 1994) was a German film actor. Like many other German actors, he fled when the Nazi Germany, Nazis came to power. Inspired by his deep hatred of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis ...

Anton Pointner Anton Pointner (8 December 1894 in Salzburg – 8 September 1949 in Hintersee) was an Austrian stage and film actor. Pointner's career began on the stages of Austria and he performed in both silent and sound films in his native Austria, as w ...

Ernst Rückert Anton Ernst Rückert (20 December 1886 – 3 September 1945) was a German stage and film actor. Rückert began his theatre career in 1908 and has appeared on the stage in Bleicherode, Königsberg and Kiel, among others. In 1910 he took up an en ...

Otz Tollen Otz Tollen (9 April 1882 – 19 July 1965) was a German actor and film director. Born in Berlin, he made his film debut in the 1912 Joe May directed film ''In der Tiefe des Schachtes''. His last film role was an appearance in the 1960 Nadja Tille ...

* Gustav Trautschold *

Kurt Vespermann Kurt Vespermann (1 May 1887 – 13 July 1957) was a German stage and film actor. Career Vespermann was born into a theatrical family in Culmsee, West Prussia, Imperial Germany, now Chełmża, Poland. His great-grandparents were actors a ...

References

Bibliography

* Lamprecht, Gerhard . ''Deutsche Stummfilme: 9a . 1927-1931''. Deutsche Kinemathek, 1968. * Quinlan, David. ''The Illustrated Directory of Film Stars''. Hippocrene Books, 1981.

External links

* 1927 films Films of the Weimar Republic Films directed by Johannes Brandt German silent feature films German black-and-white films Films set in the 1870s German historical films 1920s historical films {{1920s-Germany-silent-film-stub