High Treason (1929 German film)

1929 film

High Treason

Gerda Maurus in the film

Directed by| Johannes Meyer
Written by|

* Wenzel Goldbaum (play)
* Alexander Alexander
* Friedrich Raff

Produced by| Alfred Zeisler
Starring|

* Gerda Maurus
* Gustav Fröhlich
* Harry Hardt
* Olga Engl

Cinematography|

* Carl Hoffmann
* Friedrich Weinmann

Production
company

UFA

Distributed by| UFA

Release date

* 1 November 1929 (1929-11-01)

Country| Germany
Languages| Silent
German intertitles

High Treason (German: Hochverrat) is a 1929 German silent drama film directed by Johannes Meyer and starring Gerda Maurus, Gustav Fröhlich and Harry Hardt. The film is set in pre-Revolution Russia. Maurus' performance was contrasted favourably with her appearance in Fritz Lang's Woman in the Moon by the magazine Film und Volk.[1] The film's art direction was by Willi Herrmann.

## Cast

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* Gerda Maurus as Vera
* Gustav Fröhlich as Wassil Gurmai
* Harry Hardt as Fürst Iwan Stolin
* Olga Engl as Fürstin Stolin seine Mutter
* Leopold von Ledebur as Grossfürst Kyrill, der Governeur
* Rudolf Biebrach as Oberst Petroff
* Ossip Darmatow as Graf Starschenski
* Félix de Pomés as Nimirski
* Harry Frank as Pawel

## References

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1. ^ Kreimeier p.167

## Bibliography

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* Kreimeier, Klaus. The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918-1945. University of California Press, 1999.

## External links

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* High Treason at IMDb

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Films directed by Johannes Meyer

* Horrido (1924)
* The Poacher (1926)
* Guilty (1928)
* High Treason (1929)
* The Blonde Nightingale (1930)
* The Rhineland Girl (1930)
* The Tiger Murder Case (1930)
* Ash Wednesday (1931)
* Alarm at Midnight (1931)
* Two Heavenly Blue Eyes (1932)
* The Fugitive from Chicago (1933)
* Goodbye, Beautiful Days (1933)
* Happy Days in Aranjuez (1933)
* Mary's Start in die Ehe (1933)
* The Legacy of Pretoria (1934)
* Hangmen, Women and Soldiers (1935)
* The Impossible Woman (1936)
* Fridericus (1937)
* Der singende Tor (1939)
* Marriage in Small Doses (1939)
* Wild Bird (1943)
* Blocked Signals (1948)
* I'll Never Forget That Night (1949)
* Furioso (1950)

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