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Hans Heinrich von Twardowski and Fern Andra.
Photograph: Silent Era image collection.
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Genuine, die Tragodie eines Seltsamen Hauses
Also known as Genuine: A Tale of a Vampire in the USA
(1920) Germany
B&W : [?] Seven or Eight? reels / 2286 metres
Directed by Robert Wiene
Cast: Fern Andra [Genuine], Hans Heinrich von Twardowski [Florian], Albert Bennefeld [Curzon], Harold Paulsen [Percy Melos], Lewis Brody [the Malay], John Gottowt [Guyard, the barber], Ernst Gronau [Lord Melos]
Decla-Bioskop Aktiengesellschaft production. / Executive producer, Rudolf Meinert. Produced by Erich Pommer. Scenario by Carl Mayer. Art direction by [?] Bernhard Klein, César Klein and Kurt Hermann Rosenberg? Set design by César Klein and Walther Reimann. Costume design by César Klein. Cinematography by Willy Hameister. / Premiered 2 September 1920 at the Marmorhaus in Berlin, Germany. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was reconstructed to nearly its original length in 1996 by the Münchner Filmmuseum from two surviving prints held in France. [?] Website-Wikipedia states that a complete print of the film was recovered by the Berlin Film Archive.
Drama.
Survival status: Prints exist in the film holdings of the Cohen Media Group (Raymond Rohauer collection) [incomplete 35mm positives, 35mm reconstruction negative, 35mm reconstruction positives].
Current rights holder: Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung.
Keywords: Artists: Painters, Paintings - Vamps
Listing updated: 14 May 2018.
References: Bardèche-History pp. 190, 191 : Website-IMDb; Website-Wikipedia.
Home video: DVD.
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