The Black Panther (1921 film)

The Black Panther (German: Die schwarze Pantherin) is a 1921 German silent film directed by Johannes Guter and starring Yelena Polevitskaya, Xenia Desni and Eugen Burg. The film was produced by Russo Film, a small production outfit associated with Decla-Bioscop, which had been set up to produce films based on literature.^[1] The film was adapted from a play by Volodymyr Vynnychenko. It premiered on 14 October 1921 at a Decla cinema on the Unter den Linden.^[2]

Cast

• Yelena Polevitskaya as Rita
• Xenia Desni as Vera, Schriftstellerin
• Eugen Burg as Moulin, ein Kunstkritiker
• Wilhelm Diegelmann as der alte Kornej
• Ivan Bulatov as der Gutsverwalter, Ritas Vater
• Leonhard Haskel as ein Agent
• Rudolf Hofbauer as der Kardinal, ein Maler
• Friedrich Kühne as ein Arzt
• Lina Paulsen as Frau des alten Kornej
• Adele Sandrock as die Wirtin einer Kuenstlerkneipe
• Hermann Vallentin as Antonius Qualm, ein Dichter
• Yuri Yurovsky as Kornej, ein Bauernmaler

References

Bibliography

• Hardt, Ursula. From Caligari to California: Erich Pommer's life in the International Film Wars. Berghahn Books, 1996.
• Soroka, Mykola. Faces of Displacement: The Writings of Volodymyr Vynnychenko. McGill-Queen's Press, 2012.

External links

• The Black Panther at the Internet Movie Database