Christian Wahnschaffe

Christian Wahnschaffe
Christian Wahnschaffe
Directed by	Urban Gad
Written by	Jakob Wassermann (novel); Paul Georg; Bobby E. Lüthge; Hans Behrendt;
Starring	Conrad Veidt; Fritz Kortner; Werner Krauss;
Cinematography	Max Lutze [de] (Part I); Willy Hameister (Part II);
Music by	Giuseppe Becce (Part I); Alexander Schirmann [de] (Part II);
Production; company	Terra Film
Distributed by	Terra Film
Release dates	12 November 1920 (Part I); 30 March 1921 (Part II);
Running time	77 minutes (Part I); 75 minutes (Part II);
Country	Germany
Languages	Silent; German intertitles;

Christian Wahnschaffe is a 1920 German silent drama film directed by Urban Gad and starring Conrad Veidt, Lillebil Ibsen, Hermann Vallentin and Fritz Kortner.^[1] It was released in two parts World Ablaze (Weltbrand) in November 1920 and The Escape from the Golden Prison (Die Flucht aus dem goldenen Kerker) in March 1921. It is an adaptation of the novel of the same title by Jakob Wassermann. The film is extant, and was restored in 2018 by the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung.^[2]

The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert A. Dietrich.

Cast[edit]

Part 1: World Ablaze[edit]

Conrad Veidt as Christian Wahnschaffe
Lillebil Ibsen as Eva Sorel
Hermann Vallentin as Cardillac
Hugo Flink
Fritz Kortner as Iwan Becker
Ernst Matray [de; fr; hu; mg; ru]
Theodor Loos as Amadeus Voß
Helga Molander as Laetitia
Leopold von Ledebur as Großfürst
Frida Richard as Arbeiterfrau
Franz Sutton as Arbeiter Kroll
Josef Peterhans as Geheimagent des Großfürsten
Paula Barra
Fritz Feld
Sadjah Gezza [de]
Paul Graetz
Ilka Grüning
Esther Hagan
Leopoldine Konstantin
Maria Reisenhofer
Margarete Schlegel
Reinhold Schünzel
Sylvia Torf [de]
Rosa Valetti
Aruth Wartan

Part 2: The Escape from the Golden Prison[edit]

Conrad Veidt as Christian Wahnschaffe
Magda Madeleine [de] as Wahnschaffes Geliebte
Werner Krauss as Niels Heinrich
Ernst Pröckl as Amadeus Voß
Esther Hagan as Dirne Karen Engelschall
Margarete Kupfer as Mutter Engelschall
Rose Müller as Ruth Hofmann
Fritz Feld as Idiot
Ernst Dernburg
Ilka Grüning
Emil Heyse [de]
Lillebil Ibsen
Jenny Marba [de]
Hella Moja
Reinhold Schünzel

References[edit]

Bibliography[edit]

Grange, William (2008). Cultural Chronicle of the Weimar Republic. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-5967-8.
Soister, John T. (2002). Conrad Veidt on Screen: A Comprehensive Illustrated Filmography. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-1289-1.

External links[edit]

Part I at IMDb
Part II at IMDb

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[FOOTNOTEGrange74-1] Grange, p. 74.

[2] "Christian Wahnschaffe, Teil 2: Die Flucht aus dem goldenen Kerker | Christian Wahnschaffe, Part 2: The Escape from the Golden Prison".

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