''The Director General'' (German: ''Der Herr Generaldirektor'') 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
Fritz Wendhausen
Fritz Wendhausen (7 August 1890 – 5 January 1962) was a German actor, screenwriter and film director. He is also credited as Frederick Wendhausen and F.R. Wendhausen. In 1938 he immigrated to Britain from Nazi Germany.
Selected filmography
Scre ...
and starring
Albert Bassermann,
Hanna Ralph and
Alexandra Sorina.
[Bock & Bergfelder p.28] 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 ...
Robert Neppach
Robert Neppach (2 March 1890 – 18 August 1939) was an Austrian architect, film producer and art director. Neppach worked from 1919 in the German film industry. He oversaw the art direction of over 80 films during his career, including F.W. Mur ...
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Cast
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Albert Bassermann as Generaldirektor Herbert Heidenberg
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Hanna Ralph as Gerda
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Alexandra Sorina as Hanna Weyl
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Alfred Abel as Konstantin Avalescu
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Hermann Vallentin as Karl Mollheim
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Kurt Vespermann as Reinhold Gehrke
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Bruno Ziener
Bruno Ziener (11 June 1870 – 9 February 1941) was a German stage and film actor and film director, director. He appeared in over 100 films between 1913 and 1941. He also directed 28 silent films such as ''The Flight into Death'' (1921).Grange p ...
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Wilhelm Diegelmann
Wilhelm Diegelmann (28 September 1861 – 1 March 1934) was a German actor.
Career
Diegelmann's first stage appearance was in 1878 in the chorus for the Frankfurt Opera. In 1881 he debuted at the Frankfurt City Theater, playing King Lear, Wil ...
References
Bibliography
* Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim.
The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema'. Berghahn Books, 2009. .
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1925 films
Films of the Weimar Republic
Films directed by Fritz Wendhausen
German silent feature films
German black-and-white films
UFA GmbH films
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