Cagliostro (1929 film)

Cagliostro is a 1929 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.[2] It was based on a novel by Johannes von Guenther.

Cagliostro
Directed byRichard Oswald
Produced by
Screenplay by
Based onA novel
by Johannes von Guenther[1]
StarringHans Stüwe[1]
Music byWerner Schmidt-Boelcke[1]
Cinematography
Production
companies
  • Les Films Albatros
  • Wengeroff-Film GmbH[1]
Release date
  • 8 April 1929 (1929-04-08) (Berlin)
  • 21 May 1929 (1929-05-21) (Paris)
Country
  • France
  • Germany[1]

Cast

Release

Caligostro premiered in Berlin on 8 April 1929.[1] It was later shown in Paris on 21 May 1929.[1] In the early 1930s, Universal Pictures planned a Cagliostro film starring Boris Karloff in the title role, which was later re-written into the script for The Mummy.[3]

References

Bibliography

  • Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era. Baltimore: Midnight Marquee Press. ISBN 978-1-936168-68-2.
  • Prawer, Siegbert Salomon (2005). Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910–1933. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-84545-074-8.


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