''Eternal River'' (German: ''Ewiger Strom'') is a 1920 German silent

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directed by

Johannes Guter Johannes Guter (born Jānis Gūters; 25 April 1882 – 18 March 1962) was a Latvian-born German filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional film producer. Although most of his work is now lost, he is considered a pioneer of German silent cinema and e ...

and starring

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, Marija Leiko and

Heinrich Peer Heinrich Peer (25 November 1867 – 13 May 1927) was an Austrian stage and film actor.Hardt p. 221 He appeared in around a hundred films during the silent era. Selected filmography * '' Where Is Coletti?'' (1913) * ''The Blue Mouse'' (1913) * ' ...

.Giesen p.36 The film's sets were designed by the art director

Robert Neppach Robert Neppach (2 March 1890 – 18 August 1939) was an Austrian architect, film producer and art director. Neppach worked from 1919 in the German film industry. He oversaw the art direction of over 80 films during his career, including F.W. Murn ...

. It premiered at the

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Cast

as Ein Fährmann * Marija Leiko as Marija, ein Mädchen *

as Professor Anton Weniaan * F.W. Schröder-Schrom as Ingenieur Jan Bruun * Gerhard Tandar as Kapitänin, Gerhard Wenlaan * Vladimir Agayev as Russischer Student *

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as Ein schwarzer Millionär

References

Bibliography

* Giesen, Rolf. ''The Nosferatu Story: The Seminal Horror Film, Its Predecessors and Its Enduring Legacy''. McFarland, 2019.

External links

* 1920 films Films of the Weimar Republic Films directed by Johannes Guter German silent feature films German black-and-white films {{Germany-silent-film-stub