The White Devil (1930)
- Original title
- Der weiße Teufel
- Directed by
- Alexandre Volkoff
- Genre
- drama film, silent film
- Country
- Germany
- Runtime
- 1h 50m
- Rating
- 7.2 of 10 from 4 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A Russian soldier in the Caucasus region tries to escape from a rival leader and return to his family. The film is based on a story by Leo Tolstoy.
historicaldramaticslow-burnmelancholicstatelyvisualsomberatmospheric
What happens
The White Devil (German: Der weiße Teufel) is a 1930 German historical drama film directed by Alexandre Volkoff and starring Ivan Mozzhukhin, Lil Dagover and Betty Amann. It was based on Leo Tolstoy's 1912 novella Hadji Murat. It was originally made as a silent film, with a soundtrack added later. Anatole Litvak worked as the film's assistant director and production manager. It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Alexandre Lochakoff and Vladimir Meingard. After location shooting in Nice, Switzerland and the French Alps during 1929, it premiered at the Ufa-Palast am Zoo in January 1930. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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