Waterloo (1929 film)

Waterloo
Directed by	Karl Grune
Written by	Max Ferner Bobby E. Lüthge
Produced by	Max Schach
Starring	Charles Willy Kayser Charles Vanel Otto Gebühr
Cinematography	Hugo von Kaweczynski Fritz Arno Wagner Josef Wirsching
Music by	Hansheinrich Dransmann
Production company	Bavaria Film
Distributed by	Bavaria Film
Release date	January 1929 (1929-01)
Running time	120 minutes
Country	Germany
Languages	Silent German intertitles

Waterloo is a 1929 German silent war film directed by Karl Grune and starring Charles Willy Kayser, Charles Vanel and Otto Gebühr.^[1] It depicts the victory of the Allied Forces over Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.

It was made at the Emelka Studios of Bavaria Film in Munich. The film's sets were designed by the art director Ludwig Reiber. The film was inspired by Abel Gance's epic Napoléon and made use of similar filming techniques.^[2]

Cast

• Charles Willy Kayser as Friedrich Wilhelm III
• Charles Vanel as Napoleon
• Otto Gebühr as Feldmarschall Blücher
• Auguste Prasch-Grevenberg as Blücher's Wife
• Friedrich Ulmer as Gneisenau
• Georg Henrich as Hardenberg
• Karl Graumann as Metternich
• Humberston Wright as Wellington
• Carl de Vogt as Ney
• Helmuth Renar as Talleyrand
• Vera Malinovskaya as Gräfin Tarnowska
• Camilla von Hollay as Ihre Zofe
• Oskar Marion as Leutnant Reutlingen
• Betty Bird as Rieke
• Fred Immler as Erster Grenadier
• Franz Scharwenka as Zweiter Grenadier
• Will Dohm as Graf Lagarde

References

1. BFI.org
2. Bock & Bergfelder p.175

Bibliography

• Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.

External links

• Waterloo at IMDb