The Boy in Blue (1919 film)
The Boy in Blue (German: Der 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]
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| Directed by | F. W. Murnau |
| Produced by | Ernst Hofmann |
| Written by | Edda Ottershausen |
| Starring | Ernst Hofmann |
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Running time | 54 minutes |
| Country | Weimar Republic |
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Comparison of Gainsborough's painting with the one in the film, note the cursed jewel in the film painting
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 as Thomas von Weerth
- Blandine Ebinger as Schöne Zigeunerin / Fair gypsy
- Margit Barnay as Junge Schauspielerin / Young actress
- Karl Platen as Alter Diener / Old servant
- Georg John as Zigeuner-Hauptmann / Gypsy commander
- Leonhard Haskel as Theaterdirektor
- Marie von Buelow as Bettlerin
- Rudolf Klix as Bobby
- Hedda Kemp as Dame im Schleier
- Hans Otterhausen as Guckkastenmann
- Hans Schaup as Der alte Dietrich / Thomas' Diener
See also
References
- "Der Knabe in Blau". Deutsche Kinemathek. Retrieved 25 March 2013.
- "Progressive Silent Film List: The Boy in Blue". Silent Era. Retrieved 3 November 2008.
- Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. p. 334. ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9.
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