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Sappho
Also known as Mad Love in the USA
(1921) Germany
B&W : Six reels
Directed by Dimitri Buchowetski

Cast: Pola Negri [Sappho], Johannes Riemann [Richard de la Croix], Alfred Abel [Georg de la Croix], Albert Steinrück [Andreas], Helga Molander [Maria Garden, Richard’s fiancée], Otto Treptow [Teddy], Elsa Wagner [Richard’s mother], Ellinor Gynt [dancer]

From the novel Sapho by Alphonse Daudet. Cinematography by Arpad Viragh. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The novel was previously filmed as Sapho (1917). The novel was subsequently filmed as Sapho (1934). The film was released in the USA as Mad Love by Goldwyn Distributing Corporation in March 1923.

Drama.

Survival status: Print exists in the UCLA Film and Television Archive film archive [35mm positive (English language intertitles)].

Current rights holder: Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung [Germany]; Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 12 October 2022.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.3853, Sherwood-Best p. 175 : Website-IMDb.

Home video: DVD.

 
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