''Ship in Distress'' (German: ''Schiff in Not'') 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
Fred Sauer
Fred Sauer (14 December 1886 – 17 September 1952) was an Austrian actor, film director and screenwriter.
Filmography As director
* 1920: The Apache Chief ''(Der Apachenlord)''
* 1920: '' The Law of the Desert''
* 1920: '' Demon Blood' ...
and starring
Gustav Fröhlich
Gustav Friedrich Fröhlich (21 March 1902 – 22 December 1987) was a German actor and film director. He landed secondary roles in a number of films and plays before landing his breakthrough role of Freder Fredersen in Fritz Lang's 1927 in fil ...
and
Jenny Jugo
Jenny Jugo (born Eugenie Walter; 14 June 1904 – 30 September 2001) was an Austrian actress. She appeared in more than fifty films between 1925 and 1950.
Biography
Jenny Jugo was born Eugenie Walter on 14 June 1904, the daughter of a factory ...
.
[Krautz p.32]
The film's sets were designed by the
art director
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It is the charge of a sole art director to supe ...
Willi Herrmann
Willi Herrmann (1893–1968) was a German art director.
Selected filmography
* '' Madness'' (1919)
* '' Child on the Open Road'' (1919)
* '' Jettatore'' (1919)
* '' Humanity Unleashed'' (1920)
* '' The Secrets of Berlin'' (1921)
* '' The Mahara ...
. It premiered at the
Marmorhaus
The Marmorhaus (English: Marble House) was a movie theater, cinema that used to be located on the Kurfürstendamm in Berlin. Opened in 1913, it takes its name from a large marble façade. Designed by the architect Hugo Pál, the walls of the foyer ...
in
Berlin
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.
Cast
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Gustav Fröhlich
Gustav Friedrich Fröhlich (21 March 1902 – 22 December 1987) was a German actor and film director. He landed secondary roles in a number of films and plays before landing his breakthrough role of Freder Fredersen in Fritz Lang's 1927 in fil ...
as Harry Petersen
*
Fritz Alberti
Fritz Alberti (born Friedrich Wilhelm Alberti; 22 October 1877 – 15 September 1954) was a German actor.
Selected filmography
* ''People in Ecstasy'' (1921)
* ''The Other Woman (1924 film), The Other Woman'' (1924)
* ''The Blackguard'' (1925)
* ...
as Ludwig Hartner, Reeder
*
Rudolf Del Zopp as der alte Uhl
*
Harry Hardt
Harry Hardt (born Hermann Karl Viktor Klimbacher Edler von Reichswahr, Pula, 4 August 1899 – Vienna, 14 November 1980) was an Austrian actor. The son of a military officer, he initially planned a military career for himself, studying at a mili ...
*
Jenny Jugo
Jenny Jugo (born Eugenie Walter; 14 June 1904 – 30 September 2001) was an Austrian actress. She appeared in more than fifty films between 1925 and 1950.
Biography
Jenny Jugo was born Eugenie Walter on 14 June 1904, the daughter of a factory ...
as Blanche Godard
*
Frieda Lehndorf
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*Frida (given name), any of several people or characters
**
*Frieda (surname), any of several people or characters
*Afroditi Frida (born 1964), Greek singer
*Frida (singer) ...
as Mutter Hansen
*
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 Ole Hansen
*
Grete Reinwald
Grete Reinwald (25 May 1902 – 24 May 1983) was a German stage and film actress. As a child, due to her sweet, appealing features she modeled for many monochrome, hand-tinted and autochrome postcards. Her siblings Hanni Reinwald and Otto Rein ...
as Dörte Hansen
*
Hans Adalbert Schlettow
Hans Adalbert Schlettow (11 June 1888 – 30 April 1945) was a German film actor. Schlettow appeared in around a hundred and sixty films during his career, the majority during the silent era. Among his best-known film roles was ''Hagen von Tronje' ...
as Pieter Hansen
*
Gyula Szőreghy
Gyula Szőreghy (30 November 1887 – 22 December 1942) was a Hungarian film actor.
Szőreghy was born in Algyo, Austria-Hungary (now, Hungary) and died in 1942 in Budapest. He was also credited as Julius von Szöreghy.
Selected filmography
* ...
as Bankier Brandes
References
Bibliography
* Alfred Krautz. ''International directory of cinematographers, set- and costume designers in film, Volume 4''. Saur, 1984.
External links
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1925 films
1925 drama films
German-language drama films
Films of the Weimar Republic
German silent feature films
Films directed by Fred Sauer
Seafaring films
UFA GmbH films
German black-and-white films
Phoebus Film films
Silent German drama films
Silent German adventure films
1920s German films
1920s German-language films
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