Waterloo (1929 film)

1929 film

Waterloo

Directed by| Karl Grune
Written by|

* Max Ferner
* Bobby E. Lüthge

Produced by| Max Schach
Starring|

* Charles Willy Kayser
* Charles Vanel
* Otto Gebühr

Cinematography|

* Hugo von Kaweczynski
* Fritz Arno Wagner
* Josef Wirsching

Music by| Hansheinrich Dransmann

Production
company

Bavaria Film

Distributed by| Bavaria Film

Release date

* January 1929 (1929-01)

Running time

| 120 minutes
Country| Germany
Languages|

* Silent
* German intertitles

Waterloo is a 1929 German silent war film directed by Karl Grune and starring Charles Willy Kayser, Charles Vanel and Otto Gebühr.[1] It depicts the victory of the Allied Forces over Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.

It was made at the Emelka Studios of Bavaria Film in Munich. The film's sets were designed by the art director Ludwig Reiber. The film was inspired by Abel Gance's epic Napoléon and made use of similar filming techniques.[2]

## Cast

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* Charles Willy Kayser as Friedrich Wilhelm III
* Charles Vanel as Napoleon
* Otto Gebühr as Feldmarschall Blücher
* Auguste Prasch-Grevenberg as Blücher's Wife
* Friedrich Ulmer as Gneisenau
* Georg Henrich as Hardenberg
* Karl Graumann as Metternich
* Humberston Wright as Wellington
* Carl de Vogt as Ney
* Helmuth Renar as Talleyrand
* Vera Malinovskaya as Gräfin Tarnowska
* Camilla von Hollay as Ihre Zofe
* Oskar Marion as Leutnant Reutlingen
* Betty Bird as Rieke
* Fred Immler as Erster Grenadier
* Franz Scharwenka as Zweiter Grenadier
* Will Dohm as Graf Lagarde

## References

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1. ^ BFI.org
2. ^ Bock & Bergfelder p.175

## Bibliography

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* Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.

## External links

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* Waterloo at IMDb

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The films of Karl Grune

* Man Overboard (1921)
* The Hunt for the Truth (1921)
* Night and No Morning (1921)
* The Count of Charolais (1922)
* The Night of the Medici (1922)
* The Strongest Instinct (1922)
* Women's Sacrifice (1922)
* Explosion (1923)
* The Street (1923)
* Arabella (1924)
* Jealousy (1925)
* Comedians (1925)
* The Brothers Schellenberg (1926)
* At the Edge of the World (1927)
* Queen Louise (1927)
* Spy of Madame Pompadour (1928)
* Katharina Knie (1929)
* Waterloo (1929)
* The Yellow House of Rio (1931)
* Abdul the Damned (1935)
* Pagliacci (1936)
* The Prisoner of Corbal (1936)

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