The Trial of Donald Westhof
1927 film
- 29 September 1927 (1927-09-29)
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The Trial of Donald Westhof (German: Der Kampf des Donald Westhof) is a 1927 German silent crime film directed by Fritz Wendhausen and starring Oskar Homolka, Karin Evans and Imre Ráday.[1] It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Neppach. It premiered at the Ufa-Palast am Zoo in Berlin. Produced by UFA, it was distributed as part of the Parufamet agreement.
Cast
- Oskar Homolka as Justizrat Lessing
- Karin Evans as Olga Wolgast
- Imre Ráday as Donald Westhof
- Paul Henckels as Professor Westhof, Donalds Vater
- Hermann Vallentin as Spieß, ein Gastwirt
- Paul Otto as Gerichtsvorsitzender
- Erna Morena as Thea Lessing, seine Frau
- Lina Lossen as Leni Westhof
- Nikolai Malikoff as Kußmaul, ein Schieber
- Emilie Kurz as Frau Spieß
- Elizza La Porta as Bertha Spieß, beider Tochter
- Max Gülstorff as Defense lawyer
- Erich Kaiser-Titz as Prosecutor
- Valeska Stock as Frau Busse
- Emil Heyse as Oberlehrer
References
- ^ Nichols p.89
Bibliography
- Nichols, Nina Da Vinci. Pirandello and Film. University of Nebraska Press, 1995.
External links
- The Trial of Donald Westhof at IMDb
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Films directed by Fritz Wendhausen
- The Eternal Curse (1921)
- Madame de La Pommeraye's Intrigues (1922)
- The Stone Rider (1923)
- The Director General (1925)
- His Toughest Case (1926)
- Out of the Mist (1927)
- The Trial of Donald Westhof (1927)
- A Woman with Style (1928)
- The Runaway Princess (1929)
- Queen of the Night (1931)
- The First Right of the Child (1932)
- Little Man, What Now? (1933)
- Peer Gynt (1934)
- The Black Whale (1934)
- Artist Love (1935)
- Family Parade (1936)
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