''Europe, General Delivery'' or ''Europe poste restante'' (German: ''Europa postlagernd'') is a 1918 German silent

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directed by

Ewald André Dupont Ewald André Dupont (25 December 1891 – 12 December 1956) was a German film director, one of the pioneers of the Cinema of Germany, German film industry. He was often credited as E. A. Dupont. Early life and career Born in Zeitz, Saxony and rai ...

and starring

Max Landa Max Landa (; 24 April 1873 – 8 November 1933; born Max Landau) was a Russian-born Austrian silent film and stage actor. Career Landa attended the Handelsakademie (commercial academy) in Vienna and took classes with acting teacher in the same ...

Viktor Senger Viktor Senger (1870–1942) was a German stage and film actor.Kester p. 293 Selected filmography * '' Frank Hansen's Fortune'' (1917) * ''Cain'' (1918) * '' Europe, General Delivery'' (1918) * '' Madame Récamier'' (1920) * '' Johann Baptiste Li ...

and Lu Synd. It was part of a series of films starring

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, a fiction British detective modelled on

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. It marked Dupont's directorial debut.Bergfelder & Cargnelli p.28 The film's sets were designed by the

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. It was shot at the

Babelsberg Studios Babelsberg Film Studio () (also known as Studio Babelsberg), located in Potsdam-Babelsberg outside Berlin, Germany, is the oldest large-scale film studio in the world, producing films since 1912. With a total area of about and a studio area of a ...

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Cast

as Detektiv Joe Deebs *

as Addison Wilmott * Lu Synd as Pussy, seine Frau *

Guido Herzfeld Guido Herzfeld (born Guido Kornfeld; 14 August 1851 – 16 November 1923) was a German stage and film actor. Herzfeld established himself in the theatre in the nineteenth century. In 1914 he made his film debut and went on to appear in over sixty ...

as Leon Devries, Kommissar der Kriminalpolizei *

Maria Andersen Maria may refer to: People * Mary, mother of Jesus * Maria (given name), a popular given name in many languages Place names Extraterrestrial *170 Maria, a Main belt S-type asteroid discovered in 1877 *Lunar maria (plural of ''mare''), large, da ...

as Anita Ferres *

Leonhard Haskel Leonhard Haskel (7 April 1872 – 30 December 1923) was a German stage and film actor and drama teacher. Haskel was born in Seelow, in the Prussian Province of Brandenburg, and died in Berlin. Selected filmography * '' Europe, General Deliver ...

as Jan Suiter, Küster *

Lillebil Ibsen Lillebil Ibsen (born Sofie Parelius Monrad Krohn, 6 August 1899 – 22 August 1989) was a Norwegian dancer and actress. Personal life Lillebil was born in Kristiania, as the daughter of engineer Georg Monrad Krohn and actress Gyda Martha Krist ...

as Alice van der Velde, seine Pflegetochter * Helene Voß as Frau Smits, Zimmervermieterin *

Hugo Werner-Kahle Hugo Werner-Kahle (5 August 1882 – 1 May 1961) was a German stage and film actor (and sporadically, a movie director). He appeared in around a hundred films during his career. Selected filmography * ''Midnight'' (1918) * '' The Bracelet'' (1918 ...

as Gustav Masson, ihr Onkel *

Stefanie Hantzsch Stephanie is a female name that comes from the Greek name Στέφανος (Stephanos) meaning "crown, wreath, garland". The male form is Stephen. Forms of Stephanie in other languages include the German "Stefanie", the Italian, Czech, Polish, ...

Ernst Lübbert Ernst is both a surname and a given name, the German, Dutch, and Scandinavian form of Ernest. Notable people with the name include: Surname * Adolf Ernst (1832–1899) German botanist known by the author abbreviation "Ernst" * Anton Ernst (born ...

Martin Lübbert Martin may refer to: Places Antarctica * Martin Peninsula, Marie Byrd Land * Port Martin, Adelie Land * Point Martin, South Orkney Islands Europe * Martin, Croatia, a village * Martin, Slovakia, a city * Martín del Río, Aragón, Spain * Mart ...

References

Bibliography

* Bergfelder, Tim & Cargnelli, Christian. ''Destination London: German-speaking emigrés and British cinema, 1925-1950''. Berghahn Books, 2008.

External links

* 1918 films Films of the German Empire German silent feature films Films directed by E. A. Dupont 1918 mystery films German black-and-white films Films shot at Babelsberg Studios Silent German mystery films 1910s German films 1910s German-language films German-language mystery films {{1910s-Germany-film-stub