''Shadows of the Metropolis'' (German:''Schatten der Weltstadt'') is a 1925 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
Willi Wolff
Willi Wolff (16 April 1883 – 6 April 1947) was a German screenwriter, film producer, and director. He was married to the silent film star Ellen Richter, whose films he often worked on.
Selected filmography Director
* ''Lola Montez, the King's ...
and starring
Ellen Richter,
Alfred Gerasch
Alfred Gerasch (17 August 1877 – 12 August 1955) was a German film actor.Chandler p.271
Selected filmography
* ''The Guilt of Lavinia Morland'' (1920)
* ''The Legend of Holy Simplicity'' (1920)
* '' The Handicap of Love'' (1921)
* '' His Excell ...
and
Walter Janssen
Walter Janssen (7 February 1887 – 1 January 1976) was a German film actor and director. He appeared in more than 160 films between 1917 and 1970.
Selected filmography
* '' The Dancer'' (1919)
* ''Destiny'' (1921)
* '' Wandering Souls'' ( ...
.
[Grange p.209]
The film's sets were designed by the
art director
Art director is a title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, live-action and animated film and television, the Internet, and video games.
It is the charge of a sole art director to supe ...
s
Otto Erdmann and
Hans Sohnle
Hans Sohnle (17 September 1895 – 24 March 1976) was a German art director.Chandler p.270 He frequently collaborated with Otto Erdmann on set designs.
Selected filmography
* '' The Loves of Käthe Keller'' (1919)
* '' The Woman in Doctor's Gar ...
. The film survives and has been
restored
''Restored'' is the fourth studio album by American contemporary Christian musician Jeremy Camp. It was released on November 16, 2004, by BEC Recordings.
Track listing
Standard release
Enhanced edition
Deluxe gold edition
Standard Aus ...
by
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation
The Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation ( ), based in Wiesbaden, was founded in 1966 to preserve and curate a collection of the works of Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau as well as a collection of other German films totaling to about 6,000 produced b ...
.
Cast
*
Ellen Richter as Olly Bernard
*
Alfred Gerasch
Alfred Gerasch (17 August 1877 – 12 August 1955) was a German film actor.Chandler p.271
Selected filmography
* ''The Guilt of Lavinia Morland'' (1920)
* ''The Legend of Holy Simplicity'' (1920)
* '' The Handicap of Love'' (1921)
* '' His Excell ...
as Henry Bernard, Ihr Mann
*
Walter Janssen
Walter Janssen (7 February 1887 – 1 January 1976) was a German film actor and director. He appeared in more than 160 films between 1917 and 1970.
Selected filmography
* '' The Dancer'' (1919)
* ''Destiny'' (1921)
* '' Wandering Souls'' ( ...
as Felix Granier
*
Frida Richard
Frida Richard (born Friederike Raithel, 1 November 1873 – 12 September 1946) was an Austrian actress. She was a prolific actress in both the silent and sound eras.
Selected filmography
* ''The Sin of Helga Arndt'' (1916)
* '' The Queen's Lov ...
as Graniers Mutter
*
Philipp Manning
Philipp Manning (23 November 1869 – 9 April 1951) was a British-born German actor. He was born in Lewisham to a British father and a German mother. He was sent to Germany for his education and settled there. He often played British characters i ...
as Minister
*
Robert Garrison as Emil, genannt Eierkopf
*
Harald Paulsen
Harald Paulsen (26 August 1895 – 4 August 1954) was a German stage and film actor and director. He appeared in 125 films between 1920 and 1954.
Career
Paulsen first appeared on stage at age sixteen. He then studied under Leopold Jessner, who ...
as Boxer Karl
*
Adolf Klein
Adolf Klein (15 August 1847 – 11 March 1931) was an Austrian actor and theatre director. Klein appeared in around sixty films, mainly during the silent era. He appeared in a number of the epics made by the German film industry during the early ...
as Der Gerichtspräsident
*
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 Prosecutor
*
Karl Platen
Karl Platen (6 March 1877 – 4 July 1952) was a German actor and cinematographer of the Silent film, silent era and later the sound era and known for ''Girl in the Moon (film), Girl in the Moon'' (1929) and ''M (1931 film), M'' (1931).
Biogr ...
as Diener bei Bernard
References
Bibliography
* Grange, William. ''Cultural Chronicle of the Weimar Republic''. Scarecrow Press, 2008.
External links
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1925 films
Films of the Weimar Republic
Films directed by Willi Wolff
German silent feature films
1925 drama films
UFA GmbH films
German black-and-white films
Silent German drama films
1920s German films
1920s German-language films
Films scored by Giuseppe Becce
German-language drama films
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