Madame Du Barry
Also known as Passion in the USA : [DuBarry] : {Madame DuBarry}
(1919) German
B&W : Eleven reels
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch

Cast: Pola Negri [Madame Du Barry, the former Jeanne Vaubernier], Emil Jannings [Louis XV], Harry Liedtke [Armand de Foix], Eduard von Winterstein [Graf Jean Du Barry], Reinhold Schünzel [Minister Choiseul], Else Berna [Graefin Gramont], Fred Immler [Cardinal Richelieu], Gustav Czimeg [Aiguillon], Karl Platen [Guillaume Du Barry], Magnus Stifter [Don Diego], Paul Biensfeldt [Lebel], Willy Kaiser-Heyl [Oberst der Wache], Alexander Ekert [Paillet], Marga Köhler [Madame Labille], Bernard Goetzke, Robert Sortsch-Pla, Paul Wegener, Vaubernier

Projektions Aktiengesellschaft Union-Film [PAGU] production; distributed by Universum-Film Aktiengesellschaft [UFA]. / Produced by Paul Davidson. Scenario by Hanns Kräly and Fred Orbing (Norbert Falk), from the novel Memoirs d’un médecin by Alexandre Dumas. Art direction by Karl Machus and Kurt Richter. Set design by Kurt Richter. Costume design by Ali Hubert. Cinematography by Theodor Sparkuhl + [Kurt Waschneck]. / Premiered 18 September 1919. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / The film was released in the USA as Passion by Associated First National Pictures, Incorporated, on 12 December 1920. The novel was previously filmed as Du Barry (1917). The novel was subsequently filmed as Du Barry, Woman of Passion (1930). [?] Hake-Lubitsch p. 138 lists several lengths including 7480 feet, 2280 metres and 1375 metres.

Drama.

Survival Status: Print exists.

Keywords: Authors: Alexandre Dumas

Listing updated: 5 August 2009.

References: Bardèche-History p. 189; Barry-Griffith p. 67; Bohn-Light pp. 88, 94, 121, 129, 133; Card-Seductive pp. 90, 91, 94; Edmonds-BigU p. 109; Everson-American pp. 155, 317, 323; Fell-History p. 118, 119; Hake-Lubitsch p. 138; Paris-Brooks p. 24; Sarris-Sternberg p. 6; Sherwood-Best p. xviii; Shipman-Cinema p. 68; Sinyard-Silent p. 159; Sklar-Movie p. 100; Vermilye-Twenties pp. 55, 103; Weinberg-Lubitsch p. 324 : Website-IMDb.

Home video: DVD.