''The Traitress'' (German: ''Die Verräterin'') is a 1911 German silent

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directed by

Urban Gad Peter Urban Bruun Gad (12 February 1879 – 26 December 1947) was a Denmark, Danish film director, stage actor, screenwriter, and author. He directed 40 films between 1910 and 1927. His wife Asta Nielsen starred in 30 of his films, also in his d� ...

and starring

Asta Nielsen Asta Sofie Amalie Nielsen (11 September 1881 – 24 May 1972) was a Danish silent film actress who was one of the most popular leading ladies of the 1910s and one of the first international movie stars. Seventy of Nielsen's 74 films were ...

Max Obal Max Obal (born Max David Gotthelf Sroke; 4 September 1881 – 18 May 1949) was a German actor, singer, screenwriter, and film director. He co-directed the 1927 swashbuckler ''Rinaldo Rinaldini (film), Rinaldo Rinaldini'' featuring Hans Albers.Grang ...

, Robert Valberg and

Emil Albes Friedrich Emil Albes (30 October 1861 – 22 March 1923) was a German actor and film director of the silent era.Giesen p.171 Selected filmography * '' The Traitress'' (1911) * '' Poor Jenny'' (1912) * '' The Dance of Death'' (1912) * '' Veritas ...

.Bock & Bergfelder p.145 It was shot at the Deutsche Bioscop studios at 123

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Cast

as Yvonne *

as Marquis de Bougival * Robert Valberg as Lieutenant von Mallwitz *

as Vujrat, leader of the partisans

References

Bibliography

* Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009.

External links

* 1911 films Films directed by Urban Gad German silent feature films Films of the German Empire German black-and-white films Franco-Prussian War films Films shot at Babelsberg Studios 1910s German films {{1910s-Germany-film-stub