Nathan, der Weise
(Nathan the Wise)
AKA Erstürmung Jerusalems in Germany; Nathan the Wise in the USA
(1923) German
B&W : Feature film
Directed by Manfred Noa

Cast: Werner Krauss [Nathan, der weise], Carl de Vogt [der tempelherr], Fritz Greiner [Sultan Saladin], Lia Eibenschütz [Sittah, schwester des sultans], Margarete Kupfer [Daja, erzieherin rechas], Rudolf Lettinger [klosterbruder Bonafides], Ferdinand Martini [Al-Hafi, derwisch], Bella Muzsnay [Recha], Max Schreck [templer-großmeister], Carl-Heinz Schroth [statist], Ernst Schrumpf [der patriarch von Jerusalem], Wolfgang von Schwindt [Emir von Kurdistan], Ernst Matray

Filmhaus Bavaria GmbH production. / Scenario by Hans Kyser, from a play by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. Production manager Kurt Rosen. Art direction by Karl Machus. Set design by Peter Rochelsberg. Costume design by Leo Pasetti. Cinematography by Hans Karl Gottschalk, Gustave Preiss and Georg Schubert. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / The film was released in Japan on 22 May 1925. A print was recovered in Russia in the 1990s; the print was the basis of a Filmmuseum München 2006 restoration of the film produced by Stefan Drössler.

Survival Status: Print exists.

Listing updated: 27 June 2007.

References: Bardèche-History p. 192 : Website-IMDb : with additional information provided by Thomas Kunze.

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