''Good-for-Nothing'' () is a 1922 German

silent film A silent film is a film without synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, w ...

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 ...

based on the

novella A novella is a narrative prose fiction whose length is shorter than most novels, but longer than most novelettes and short stories. The English word ''novella'' derives from the Italian meaning a short story related to true (or apparently so) ...

Joseph von Eichendorff Joseph is a common male name, derived from the Hebrew (). "Joseph" is used, along with " Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the modern-day Nordic count ...

.Wolfgang Jacobsen, ''G.W. Pabst'', Argon, 1997,
p. 286
. and starring Erhard Siedel,

Julia Serda Julia Serda (6 April 1875 – 3 December 1965) was an Austrian stage and film actress.Grange p.120 She was married to the actor Hans Junkermann. Biography Julia Serda was born on 6 April 1875 in Vienna. She became fascinated by the stage at a ...

and

Valerie von Martens Valérie von Martens (; 4 November 1894 – 7 April 1986), born Valérie Pajér Edle von Mayersperg, was a German-Austrian actress. Valérie von Martens was born in Lienz, Tirol, daughter of the Austrian admiral Rudolf Pajér Edler von Mayersperg ...

.Ursula Hardt, ''From Caligari to California: Erich Pommer's Life in the International Film Wars'', Providence, Rhode Island: Berghahn, 1996,
p. 227
e It premiered on 1 September 1922 at the in Berlin.

Cast

* Erhard Siedel *

Gustav Waldau Gustav Waldau (27 February 1871 – 25 May 1958) was a German actor. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1915 and 1955. Selected filmography * '' The Gentleman Without a Residence'' (1915) * '' In Thrall to the Claw'' (1921) * '' The Wr ...

* Hans Junkermann *

Hans Thimig Hans Emil Thimig, pseudonym: Hans Werner (23 July 1900 in Vienna – 17 February 1991, also in Vienna) was an Austrian actor, film director, and stage director. Life The youngest son of the Burgtheater actor Hugo Thimig and Franziska "Fanny" H ...

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* 1922 films Films of the Weimar Republic Films directed by Carl Froelich German silent feature films Films produced by Erich Pommer German black-and-white films Films based on German novels UFA GmbH films Adaptations of works by Joseph von Eichendorff {{1920s-Germany-silent-film-stub