Frontstairs and Backstairs

Frontstairs and Backstairs
Directed byUrban Gad
Screenplay byUrban Gad
Based onHonour by Hermann Sudermann
StarringAsta Nielsen
CinematographyKarl Freund
Axel Graatkjær
Guido Seeber
Production
company
Release date
  • 1915 (1915)
CountryGermany
LanguagesSilent
German intertitles

Frontstairs and Backstairs (German:Vordertreppe und Hintertreppe) is a 1915 German silent film directed by Urban Gad and starring Asta Nielsen and Paul Otto.[1] It is based on the 1889 play Honour by Hermann Sudermann.[2]

Cast

  • Asta Nielsen as Sabine Schulze
  • Paul Otto as Leutnant von Hameln
  • Fred Immler as Kellner Lehmann
  • Victor Arnold as Kommerzienrat Goldsohn
  • Mary Scheller as Frau Goldsohn
  • Senta Eichstaedt as Tochter Goldsohn
  • Alfred Kuehne as Schneider Schulze
  • Adele Reuter-Eichberg as Mutter Schulze

References

  1. ^ Kapczynski & Richardson p.47
  2. ^ "Verfilmungen" (in German). Hermann Sudermann Stiftung. Retrieved 2016-03-08.

Bibliography

  • Jennifer M. Kapczynski & Michael D. Richardson. A New History of German Cinema.