''Escape'' or ''Refuge'' (German: ''Zuflucht'') is a 1928 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. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...
directed by
Carl Froelich
Carl August Hugo Froelich (5 September 1875 – 12 February 1953) was a German film pioneer and film director. He was born and died in Berlin.
Biography
Apparatus builder and cameraman
From 1903 Froelich was a colleague of Oskar Messter, one of ...
and starring
Henny Porten
Frieda Ulricke "Henny" Porten (7 January 1890 – 15 October 1960) was a German actress and film producer of the silent film, silent era, and Germany's first major film star. She appeared in more than 170 films between 1906 and 1955.
Biography
...
,
Max Maximilian
Max Maximilian (born Franz Kuhn; 23 September 1885 – 25 June 1930)Landesarchiv Berlin, Sterberegister StA Schöneweide, Nr. 196/1930 was a German singer, actor and director.Waldman p.141
Career
Maximilian was born in Cologne and began his career ...
and
Margarete Kupfer
Margarete Kupfer (born Margarete Kupferschmid; 10 April 1881 – 11 May 1953) was a German actress.
Partial filmography
* '' The Canned Bride'' (1915)
* '' Frau Eva'' (1916)
* '' The Queen's Secretary'' (1916)
* '' When Four Do the Same'' (1917 ...
.
[Grange p.287]
Plot summary
Cast
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Henny Porten
Frieda Ulricke "Henny" Porten (7 January 1890 – 15 October 1960) was a German actress and film producer of the silent film, silent era, and Germany's first major film star. She appeared in more than 170 films between 1906 and 1955.
Biography
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as Hanne Lorek
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Max Maximilian
Max Maximilian (born Franz Kuhn; 23 September 1885 – 25 June 1930)Landesarchiv Berlin, Sterberegister StA Schöneweide, Nr. 196/1930 was a German singer, actor and director.Waldman p.141
Career
Maximilian was born in Cologne and began his career ...
as Der alte Schurich
*
Margarete Kupfer
Margarete Kupfer (born Margarete Kupferschmid; 10 April 1881 – 11 May 1953) was a German actress.
Partial filmography
* '' The Canned Bride'' (1915)
* '' Frau Eva'' (1916)
* '' The Queen's Secretary'' (1916)
* '' When Four Do the Same'' (1917 ...
as seine Frau
*
Alice Hechy
Alice Hechy (born Alice Scheel; 21 July 1893 – 26 May 1973) was a German stage and film actress and singer (soprano
A soprano () is a type of classical singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types. The soprano's vocal ...
as Guste, beider Tochter
*
Francis Lederer
Francis Lederer (November 6, 1899 – May 25, 2000) was an Austro-Hungarian Empire-born American film and stage actor with a successful career, first in Europe, then in the United States. His original name was František (Franz) Lederer.
Early ...
as Martin
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Carl de Vogt
Carl de Vogt (14 September 1885 – 16 February 1970) was a German film actor who starred in four of Fritz Lang's early films. He attended the acting school in Cologne, Germany. Together with acting he was also active as a singer and recorded sev ...
as Kölling, Fleischergehilfe
*
Mathilde Sussin
Mathilde Sussin (21 September 1876 – 2 August 1943) was an Austrian actress.
Sussin was born in Vienna into a Jewish family and died in 1943 at Theresienstadt concentration camp in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (German-occupied Czec ...
as Frau Falkhagen
*
Bodo Bronsky as Otto Falkhagen
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Helmuth Neumann as Fritz, beider Sohn
*
Marion Mirimanian as Else, beider Tochter
*
Lotte Stein
Lotte Stein (1894–1982) was a German actress of the stage and screen. Of Jewish descent, she fled to the United States via Czechoslovakia and Portugal, and arrived at the Port of New York on board the SS ''Mouzinho'' in June 1941.
Selected fi ...
as Marie Jankowsky
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Rudolf Biebrach
Rudolf Biebrach (24 November 1866 – 5 September 1938) was a German actor and film director. He directed over 70 films between 1909 and 1930; and he appeared as an actor in nearly 110 films between 1909 and 1938. In his youth, Biebrach had worke ...
as Hausarzt
References
Bibliography
* Grange, William. ''Cultural Chronicle of the Weimar Republic''. Scarecrow Press, 2008.
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1928 films
Films of the Weimar Republic
Films directed by Carl Froelich
German silent feature films
Films about social realism
UFA GmbH films
German black-and-white films
Silent German drama films
1928 drama films
1920s German films
1920s German-language films
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