Behind the Altar

1927 film

  • Julius Brandt
  • William Dieterle
Written byWilliam DieterleProduced byWilliam DieterleStarring
  • William Dieterle
  • Marcella Albani
  • Alfred Gerasch
Cinematography
  • Otto Martini
  • Erich Nitzschmann
  • Giovanni Vitrotti
Production
company
Charha-Film
Distributed byDeutsch-Nordische Film-Union
Release date
  • 8 December 1927 (1927-12-08)
CountryGermanyLanguages
  • Silent
  • German intertitles

Behind the Altar or The Secret of Abbe X (German: Das Geheimnis des Abbe X) is a 1927 German silent drama film directed by Julius Brandt and William Dieterle and starring Dieterle, Marcella Albani, and Alfred Gerasch.[1]

The film's sets were designed by the art directors Erich Grave and Ernst Stern.

Cast

  • William Dieterle as Der Abbé
  • Marcella Albani as Die Marchesa
  • Alfred Gerasch as Der Conte
  • Jeanne Helbling as Bianca, Zofe der Marchesa
  • Kenneth Rive as Der junge Marchese
  • Hermann Picha as Beppo, Diener des Conte
  • Julius Brandt as Der Majordomus
  • Paul Biensfeldt as Der alte Pfarrer
  • Raimondo Van Riel as Becelli

References

  1. ^ Bock & Bergfelder p. 90

Bibliography

  • Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9.

External links

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