The Secret Courier
1928 film
- 25 October 1928 (1928-10-25)
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The Secret Courier (German: Der geheime Kurier) is a 1928 German silent adventure film directed by Gennaro Righelli and starring Lil Dagover, Ivan Mozzhukhin and Agnes Petersen.[1] It is based on the classic novel The Red and the Black by Stendhal, which Righelli later remade as a sound film The Courier of the King in 1947. The film was shot at the Terra Studios in Berlin. The film's art direction was by Otto Erdmann and Hans Sohnle.
Cast
- Lil Dagover as Mme. Thérèse de Renal
- Ivan Mozzhukhin as Julien Sorel
- Agnes Petersen as Mathilde de la Môle
- Félix de Pomés as Norbert de la Môle
- Valeria Blanka as Innkeeper's Daughter
- Hubert von Meyerinck as Duc d'Orléans
- José Davert as Mayor Rénal
- Jean Dax as Marquis de la Môle
- Dillo Lombardi as Abbé
References
- ^ Bock & Bergfelder p.77
Bibliography
- Hans-Michael Bock and Tim Bergfelder. The Concise Cinegraph: An Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.
External links
- The Secret Courier at IMDb
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Films directed by Gennaro Righelli
- Red Love (1921)
- The Voyage (1921)
- Under the Snow (1922)
- La Boheme (1923)
- Orient (1924)
- Rudderless (1924)
- The Doll Queen (1925)
- The Champion of the World (1927)
- Homesick (1927)
- Svengali (1927)
- Five Anxious Days (1928)
- Orient (1928)
- The Secret Courier (1928)
- The President (1928)
- Their Son (1929)
- The Night of Terror (1929)
- The Song of Love (1930)
- The Blue Fleet (1932)
- Together in the Dark (1933)
- The Last of the Bergeracs (1934)
- Mr. Desire (1934)
- Those Two (1935)
- The Amnesiac (1936)
- White Amazons (1936)
- Lasciate ogni speranza (1937)
- They've Kidnapped a Man (1938)
- La voce senza volto (1939)
- The Boarders at Saint-Cyr (1939)
- The Knight of San Marco (1939)
- Down with Misery (1945)
- Peddlin' in Society (1946)
- The Courier of the King (1947)
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