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Wandering Souls

1921 film

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (novel)
Walter Supper
Carl Froelich

Produced byErich PommerStarring

Asta Nielsen
Alfred Abel
Walter Janssen
Guido Herzfeld

CinematographyAxel Graatkjær

Production
company

Russo Film

Distributed byDecla-Bioscop

Release date

3 March 1921

Running time

123 minutesCountryGermanyLanguages

Silent
German intertitles

Wandering Souls (German: Irrende Seelen) is a 1921 German silent drama film directed by Carl Froelich and starring Asta Nielsen, Alfred Abel, and Walter Janssen. It was based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 1869 novel The Idiot. The film was the first of three to be made by Russo Film, a small production company set up by Decla-Bioscop to make literary adaptations.^[1] The 123-minute film was shot at the Johannisthal Studios in Berlin. It premiered on 3 March 1921 at the Marmorhaus in Berlin.^[2]

Cast

Asta Nielsen as Nastassja Baraschkowa
Alfred Abel as Parfen, Rogoschins Sohn
Walter Janssen as Prinz Myschkin
Guido Herzfeld as Semjon Rogoschin
Lyda Salmonova as Tochter Aglaia Jepantschin
Maria Connard as Gawrils Mutter Nina Alexandrowna
Lili Donecker as Marie
Eugenia Eduardova as Solotänzerin
Leonhard Haskel as General Jepantschin
Simon Konarski as Eugen Ratomsky
Adolf E. Licho as Herr Lebedoff
Lydia Potechina as Alte Gutsbesitzerin
Auguste Prasch-Grevenberg as Frau Rogoschin
Frida Richard as Maries Mutter
Ernst Rotmund as Gawril Iwolgin-Ganja
Lydia Savitzky as Tochter Adelaida Jepantschin
Erika Unruh as Gawrils Schwester Warwara
Marga von Kierska as Tochter Alexandra Jepantschin
Vasilij Vronski as Trotzky
Elsa Wagner as Frau Jepantschin
Sylvia Torf

References

^ Hardt pp. 52-53
^ Hardt p. 223

Bibliography

Hardt, Ursula. From Caligari to California: Erich Pommer's life in the International Film Wars. Berghahn Books, 1996.

External links

Wandering Souls at IMDb
Danish Filme Institute

Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Idiot (1869)

Characters

Films

Wandering Souls (1921)
The Idiot (1946)
The Idiot (1951)
The Idiot (1958)
L'Amour braque (1985)
Idiot (1992)
The Idiot Returns (1999)
Down House (2001)
The Idiot (2011)

Television

The Idiot (2003)

Opera

The Idiot (1985)
Der Idiot (1986/87)

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