People in Need (film)

1925 film

  • Hermine Sterler
  • Werner Pittschau
  • Claire Rommer
CinematographyWilly Goldberger
Production
company
Hegewald Film
Distributed byHegewald Film
Release date
  • 10 December 1925 (1925-12-10)
CountryGermanyLanguages
  • Silent
  • German intertitles

People in Need (German: Volk in Not or Ein Heldenlied von Tannenberg) is a 1925 German silent war film directed by Wolfgang Neff and starring Hermine Sterler, Werner Pittschau and Claire Rommer.[1]

The film's sets were designed by the art director Willi Herrmann.

Cast

  • Hermine Sterler as Elisabeth Ditten, Gutsbesitzerin
  • Werner Pittschau as Horst - Elisabeths Sohn
  • Claire Rommer as Herta - Elisabeths Nichte
  • Heinrich Peer as Der Oberst
  • Josef Breitbart as Ein Offiziersbursche
  • Wilhelm Diegelmann as Der Pastor
  • Eva Speyer as Die Pastorin
  • Sophie Pagay as Die Magd
  • Eduard von Winterstein as General Samsonoff
  • Gustav Adolf Semler as Graf Wolkonski - Samsonoffs Adjutant
  • Karl Beckersachs as Jergunoff - russischer Stabsarzt
  • Aruth Wartan as Russischer Generalstabchef
  • Ernst Rückert as Russischer Leutnant
  • Traute Gerlach as Ein Bauernmädchen

References

  1. ^ Kester p. 194

Bibliography

  • Kester, Bernadette. Film Front Weimar: Representations of the First World War in German films of the Weimar Period (1919–1933). Amsterdam University Press, 2003.
  • People in Need at IMDb


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