Cagliostro (1929 film)

Cagliostro
Directed by	Richard Oswald
Produced by	Alexandre Kamenka Wladimir Wengeroff Richard Oswald
Written by	Johannes von Guenther (novel) Herbert Juttke Georg C. Klaren
Starring	Hans Stüwe Renée Héribel Alfred Abel Ivan Koval-Samborsky
Cinematography	Maurice Desfassiaux Jules Kruger
Production company	Films Albatros Richard Oswald-Film
Distributed by	Deutsches Lichtspiel-Syndikat
Release dates	8 April 1929
Country	France Germany
Language	Silent German intertitles

Cagliostro is a 1929 French-German silent drama film directed by Richard Oswald and starring Hans Stüwe, Renée Héribel and Alfred Abel. It depicts the life of the eighteenth century Italian occultist Alessandro Cagliostro, portraying him more sympathetically than in most other works.^[1] It was based on a novel by Johannes von Guenther. The film survives but is incomplete.

Cast

• Hans Stüwe as Cagliostro
• Renée Héribel as Lorenza
• Alfred Abel as Prince de Rohan
• Ivan Koval-Samborsky as Benito
• Rina De Liguoro as Laura, Marquise Espada
• Charles Dullin as Marquis de Espada-Comte de Breteil
• Illa Meery as Jeanne de la Motte
• Edmond Van Daële as Louis XVI
• Suzanne Bianchetti as Marie Antoinette
• Jules Moy as Bohmer
• Georges Deneubourg as Basange
• Alice Tissot as Duchesse de Mittau
• René Donnio as Chevreau
• Jeannie Luxeuil
• Andrée Canti
• Roger Karl
• Andrews Engelmann
• Nicolas Rimsky
• Teddy Michaud

References

1. Prawer p.86

Bibliography

• Prawer, S.S. Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910–1933. Berghahn Books, 2005.

External links

• Cagliostro at the Internet Movie Database