''The Director General'' (German: ''Der Herr Generaldirektor'') is a 1925 German silent

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directed by

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and starring Albert Bassermann, Hanna Ralph and Alexandra Sorina.Bock & Bergfelder p.28 The film's sets were designed by the

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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 ...

Cast

* Albert Bassermann as Generaldirektor Herbert Heidenberg * Hanna Ralph as Gerda * Alexandra Sorina as Hanna Weyl * Alfred Abel as Konstantin Avalescu * Hermann Vallentin as Karl Mollheim * Kurt Vespermann as Reinhold Gehrke *

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 ...

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. .

External links

* 1925 films Films of the Weimar Republic Films directed by Fritz Wendhausen German silent feature films German black-and-white films UFA GmbH films {{1920s-Germany-silent-film-stub