''In Old Alsace'' (French:''L'ami Fritz'') is a 1920 French

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

René Hervil René Hervil (1881–1960) was a French actor, screenwriter and film director.Goble p.322 Most of his films were made during the silent era. He directed the ''Maud'' series of films between 1912 and 1915 starring the Anglo-French actress Aimée Ca ...

and starring

Léon Mathot Léon Mathot (5 March 1886, Roubaix, Nord-Pas-de-Calais - 6 March 1968, in Paris) was a French film actor and film director best known perhaps for playing Edmond Dantes in ''The Count of Monte Cristo (1918 series), The Count of Monte Cristo'' se ...

Huguette Duflos Huguette Duflos (24 August 1887, Limoges – 12 April 1982, Paris) was a French stage and film actress. Life In 1910, she married the actor Raphaël Duflos, from whom she was divorced around 1928. Initially a theatrical performer with th ...

and

Thérèse Kolb Thérèse Kolb (1856–1935) was a French stage and film actress.Goble p.165 Selected filmography * '' In Old Alsace'' (1920) * '' Blanchette'' (1921) * '' The Crime of Bouif'' (1922) * ''Jack'' (1925) * '' Yasmina'' (1927) * '' In the Shadow of ...

.Oscherwitz & Higgins p.279 It was based on a novel by Alexandre Chatrian and Emile Erckmann and was remade as a sound film of the same title in 1933.

Cast

as Fritz Kobus *

as Suzel *

as Catherine *

Édouard de Max Édouard Alexandre de Max (born Eduard-Alexandru Max Romalo; 14 February 1869 – 28 October 1924) was a Romanian actor who became a star in Parisian theatre. As a student at the Paris Conservatoire he won prizes for tragedy and comedy, but it was ...

as David Sichel *

Louis Kerly Louis Kerly (18 June 1872 – 23 November 1936) was a French stage and film actor.Goble p.475 Selected filmography * '' In Old Alsace'' (1920) * '' The Bread Peddler'' (1923) * '' The Two Boys'' (1924) * ''Monte Carlo'' (1925) * '' My Priest Amon ...

Henri Maillard Henri is the French form of the masculine given name Henry, also in Estonian, Finnish, German and Luxembourgish. Bearers of the given name include: People French nobles * Henri I de Montmorency (1534–1614), Marshal and Constable of France * H ...

* Flamion * Marey *

Maurice de Féraudy Maurice de Féraudy (born in Joinville-le-Pont on December 3, 1859 – died in Paris May 12, 1932) was a French songwriter, stage and film director, and actor at the Comédie-Française. He was the father of actor Jacques de Féraudy. Life and car ...

References

Bibliography

* Dayna Oscherwitz & MaryEllen Higgins. ''The A to Z of French Cinema''. Scarecrow Press, 2009.

External links

* 1920 films Films directed by René Hervil French silent feature films French black-and-white films 1920s French films {{1920s-France-film-stub