''Dr. Hart's Diary'' (German: ''Das Tagebuch des Dr. Hart'') is a 1917

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silent

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directed by

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and starring

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and

Dagny Servaes Dagny Servaes (10 March 1894 – 10 July 1961) was a German-Austrian stage and film actress. In the theatre she appeared in the productions of Max ReinhardtStyan p.89 and Berthold Brecht. Servaes appeared in around sixty films during her career, ...

. The film depicts a German

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in occupied

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during the ongoing

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. The film was created as part of a major effort to propagandize the German-Polish friendship that leads to the re-establishment of Poland by German forces in late 1916. It was produced by

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in association with the propaganda agency BUFA. Shortly afterwards, hoping to produce a number of similar films, the German government founded

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which PAGU merged into.Prawer p.4

Cast

as Dr. Robert Hart *

as Schlossherrin Ursula von Hohenau *

as Jadwiga Bransky *

Ernst Hofmann Ernst Karl Heinrich Hofmann (7 December 1880 – 27 April 1945) was a German stage and film actor. Selected filmography * '' The White Roses'' (1916) * '' Dr. Hart's Diary'' (1917) * '' Countess Kitchenmaid'' (1918) * '' Ikarus, the Flying Man ...

as Graf Bronislaw Krascinsky *

Adolf Klein Adolf Klein (15 August 1847 – 11 March 1931) was an Austrian actor and theatre director. Klein appeared in around sixty films, mainly during the silent era. He appeared in a number of the epics made by the German film industry during the early ...

as Graf Bransky

References

Bibliography

* Prawer, S.S. ''Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933''. Berghahn Books, 2005.

External links

* 1917 films 1910s German-language films Films of the German Empire German war films 1917 war films Films directed by Paul Leni Films set in Poland German World War I films German silent feature films German black-and-white films 1910s German films German-language war films {{1910s-Germany-film-stub