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Jeremias
Also known as The Fall of Jerusalem in the USA : [Der Kampf um Jerusalem]
(1922) Germany
B&W : Feature film
Directed by Eugen Illés
Cast: Carl de Vidal Hunt (Carl de V. Hundt) [Jeremias], Theodor Becker [King Nebukadnezer of Babylon], Jaro Fürth [Bachur, des falschr Prophet], Werner Hollmann [King Zedekiah of Judea], Georg John [the Egyptian emmissary], Mara Markoff [Rahel, Jeremiah’s daughter], Cordy Millowitsch [Queen Esther of Judea], Walter Rilla [Amosa, captain of the guard], Sacy von Blondel [Mirjam, Jeremiah’s daughter], Wilhelm von Haxthausen [Maskir, schatzmeister des Königs (the king’s treasurer)]
Spera-Film production; distributed by Spera-Film. / Produced by Gleißner (Gleissner). Scenario by Rudolf Kellaren and Paul Lerch. Art direction by Siegfried Wroblewsky. Cinematography by Eugen Hamm and Hans Mönling. / Released 22 October 1922. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / An English language version of the film, entitled The Fall of Jerusalem, was recovered by a film collector in Massachusetts in 1998; the film was not definitively identified until November 2004 by Gerhild Krebs.
Drama: Historical.
Survival status: Prints exist in the George Eastman Museum film archive [35mm positive (English language version)]; and in the Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv film archive [incomplete 35mm positive (act two only)].
Current rights holder: Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung.
Listing updated: 7 November 2022.
References: Website-GEM; Website-IMDb.
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