Rasputin, Demon with Women

Rasputin, Demon with Women
Directed by	Adolf Trotz
Produced by	Ludwig Gottschalk
Written by	Ossip Dymow Adolf Lantz Conrad Linz
Starring	Conrad Veidt Paul Otto Hermine Sterler
Music by	Wladimir Metzl Fritz Wenneis
Cinematography	Curt Courant
Edited by	Geza Pollatschik
Production company	Gottschalk Tonfilm
Distributed by	Union-Film
Release date	19 February 1932
Running time	82 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

Rasputin, Demon with Women (German: Rasputin, Dämon der Frauen) is a 1932 German drama film directed by Adolf Trotz and starring Conrad Veidt, Paul Otto and Hermine Sterler.^[1]

It portrays the influence wielded by Gregory Rasputin over the Russian Royal Family around the time of the First World War.

The film's sets were designed by the art directors Gustav A. Knauer and Walter Reimann.

Cast

• Conrad Veidt as Grigori Rasputin
• Paul Otto as Zar Nikolaus II. Romanow
• Hermine Sterler as Zarin Alexandra
• Kenneth Rive as Zarewitsch Alioscha
• Alexandra Sorina as Hofdame Wyrubowa
• Karl Ludwig Diehl as Fürst Jussupoff
• Ida Perry as Gräfin Ignatieff
• Charlotte Ander as Musja Suschkowa
• Elza Temary as Nina, eine Spionin
• Brigitte Horney as Luscha
• Bernhard Goetzke as Luscha's Vater - ein Grossbauer
• Franziska Kinz as Dunja
• Marian Chevalier as Die Aristokratin
• Heinrich Heilinger as Petroff - Regierungsbeamter
• Edith Meinhard as Petroff's Geliebte
• Magnus Stifter as Bischof von Tobolsk
• Ernst Reicher as Innenminister
• Werner Hollmann as Polizeichef
• Theo Shall as Leutnant Suschkoff
• Friedrich Gnaß as Derewenko
• Paul Henckels as Pureschkewitsch - Abgeordneter
• Alexander Murski as Wachtmeister

References

Bibliography

• Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.

External links

• Rasputin, Demon with Women on IMDb