''Wood Love'' (German title: ''Ein Sommernachtstraum'') is a 1925 German silent

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directed by Hans Neumann and starring Werner Krauss,

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and Alexander Granach. It was an adaptation of

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's ''

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''. Ernö Metzner worked as the film's

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Preservation

''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' (''Ein Sommernachtstraum'') was preserved and restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and The Film Foundation from a 35mm nitrate silent tinted print. Restoration funding was provided by Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation. The restoration had its Los Angeles premiere at the 2024 UCLA Festival of Preservation.

Cast

* Werner Krauss as Bottom *

as Puck * Alexander Granach as Waldschrat and in alphabetical order *

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* Charlotte Ander as Hermia *

Theodor Becker Theodor Becker (23 June 1840 in Plön – 30 June 1928 in Liegnitz) was a Danish-born German civil engineer and entomologist primarily known for studies on the taxonomy of flies Flies are insects of the Order (biology), order Dip ...

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* Hans Behrendt * Wilhelm Bendow as Flaut *

Paul Biensfeldt Paul Biensfeldt (4 March 1869 – 2 April 1933) was a German-JewishSiegbert Salomon Prawer, ''Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933'', Berghahn Books (2007), p. 213 stage actor, stage and film actor. Sele ...

* Walter Brandt as Schnock * Tamara Geva as

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* Ernst Gronau as Squenz * Armand Guerra as Wenzel * Paul Günther as Egeus * Martin Jacob as Schlucker * Adolf Klein * Lori Leux as Titania * André Mattoni as

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* Fritz Rasp as Schnauz * Rose Veldtkirch * Barbara von Annenkoff as Helena * Ruth Weyher as Hippolyta *

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as Milon

References

Bibliography

* Kreimeier, Klaus. ''The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918-1945''. University of California Press, 1999.

External links

* 1925 films 1926 comedy films 1926 films 1920s German-language films German fantasy comedy films Films of the Weimar Republic German silent feature films Films based on A Midsummer Night's Dream 1920s fantasy comedy films UFA GmbH films German black-and-white films 1925 comedy films Silent fantasy comedy films 1920s German films Films scored by Hans May {{1920s-Germany-silent-comedy-film-stub