The Blood of the Ancestors

1920 film

  • Johannes Brandt
  • Robert Wiene
Produced byErich PommerStarring
  • Robert Scholz
  • Harald Paulsen
  • Lil Dagover
CinematographyWilly Hameister
Production
company
Decla-Bioscop
Distributed byDecla-Bioscop
Release date
  • 5 November 1920 (1920-11-05)
CountryGermanyLanguages
  • Silent
  • German intertitles

The Blood of the Ancestors (German: Das Blut der Ahnen) is a 1920 German silent film directed by Karl Gerhardt and starring Robert Scholz, Harald Paulsen, and Lil Dagover.[1] It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios of Decla-Bioscop in Berlin.[2] The film's art direction was by Hermann Warm.

Cast

  • Robert Scholz as Fürst Kasimir Schwijski
  • Harald Paulsen as Jan Schwijski, der Sohn
  • Lil Dagover as Fürstin Wanda Lubowiczka
  • Lili Alexandra as Princesin Elisabeth
  • Josef Rehberger as Graf Rimanski
  • Maria Zelenka as Marja
  • Jaro Fürth as Dr. Swedrowski

References

  1. ^ Jung & Schatzberg p. 87
  2. ^ Jacobsen p.45

Bibliography

  • Jacobsen, Wolfgang. Babelsberg: das Filmstudio. Argon, 1994.
  • Jung, Uli; Schatzberg, Walter (1999). Beyond Caligari: The Films of Robert Wiene. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-156-1.
  • The Blood of the Ancestors at IMDb
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