The Boy in Blue (1919 film)
| The Boy in Blue | |
|---|---|
 Screenshot | |
| Directed by | F. W. Murnau |
| Produced by | Ernst Hofmann |
| Written by | Edda Ottershausen |
| Starring | Ernst Hofmann |
| Cinematography |
Karl Freund Carl Hoffmann |
Release dates |
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Running time | 54 minutes |
| Country | Weimar Republic |
| Language |
Silent German intertitles |
comparison of Gainsborough's painting with the one in the film
The Boy in Blue (German: Knabe in Blau and also known as Emerald of Death) is a 1919 silent German drama film directed by F. W. Murnau. It was Murnau's directorial debut. The film is now considered to be a lost film, though the Deutsche Kinemathek film archive possesses 35 small fragments ranging from two to eleven frames in length.[1][2]
Thomas Gainsborough's painting The Blue Boy and Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray were inspirations for Murnau to create this film.[3]
Cast
- Ernst Hofmann – Thomas von Weerth
- Blandine Ebinger – Schöne Zigeunerin / Fair gypsy
- Margit Barnay – Junge Schauspielerin / Young actress
- Karl Platen – Alter Diener / Old servant
- Georg John – Zigeuner-Hauptmann / Gypsy commander
- Leonhard Haskel – Theaterdirektor
- Marie von Buelow – Bettlerin
- Rudolf Klix – Bobby
- Hedda Kemp – Dame im Schleier
- Hans Otterhausen – Guckkastenmann
- Hans Schaup – Der alte Dietrich / Thomas' Diener
See also
References
- ↑ "Der Knabe in Blau". Deutsche Kinemathek. Retrieved March 25, 2013.
- ↑ "Progressive Silent Film List: The Boy in Blue". Silent Era. Retrieved 3 November 2008.
- ↑ Bock, Hans-Michael (2009). Hans-Michael Bock, Tim Bergfelder, ed. The concise Cinegraph: encyclopaedia of German cinema. Berghahn Books. p. 334. ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9.
External links
Media related to Der Knabe in Blau at Wikimedia Commons
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