What the Stones Tell
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| Directed by | Rolf Randolf |
| Written by | Carl Gustav von Negelein |
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| Cinematography | Ludwig Lippert |
Production company | Ranneg-Film |
| Distributed by | Filmhaus Bruckmann |
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| Country | Germany |
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What the Stones Tell (German: Was Steine erzählen) is a 1925 German silent historical war film directed by Rolf Randolf and starring Ernst Rückert, Fritz Greiner and Eduard von Winterstein.[1] The film portrays the Lützow Free Corps of the Napoleonic Era. Its title references a poem about the unit, and is part of the tradition of Prussian films.[citation needed]
The film's sets were designed by the famous art director Robert A. Dietrich.[citation needed]
Cast[edit]
- Ernst Rückert as Theodor Körner
- Fritz Greiner as Andreas Hofer
- Eduard von Winterstein as General Wrangel
- Rudolf Hilberg as Major von Lützow
- Elise Aulinger as Hoferin
- Karl Beckersachs as Lieutenant
- Christian Bummerstaedt as Friedrich Förster
- Theodor Loos
- Karl Platen
- Grete Reinwald[2]
References[edit]
- ^ Bock & Bergfelder p.536
- ^ Was Steine erzählen (1925) - IMDb, retrieved 7 September 2023
Bibliography[edit]
- Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.
External links[edit]
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Categories:
- 1925 films
- Films of the Weimar Republic
- Films directed by Rolf Randolf
- German silent feature films
- 1920s historical films
- German historical films
- Films set in the 1810s
- German war films
- 1925 war films
- Prussian films
- Napoleonic Wars films
- German black-and-white films
- 1920s German films
- 1920s German-language films
- Silent German film stubs