Yorck
1931 film
- Robert Liebmann
- Hans Müller
- Arthur Pohl
- Werner Krauss
- Gustaf Gründgens
- Rudolf Forster
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Yorck is a 1931 German war film directed by Gustav Ucicky and starring Werner Krauss, Grete Mosheim and Rudolf Forster.[1] It portrays the life of the Prussian General Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg, particularly his refusal to serve in Napoleon's army during the French Invasion of Russia in 1812. It was a Prussian film, one of a cycle of films made during the era that focused on Prussian history.
The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Herlth and Walter Röhrig. It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Potsdam and on location around Berlin.
Main cast
- Werner Krauss as General Yorck von Wartenberg
- Grete Mosheim as Barbara
- Rudolf Forster as King Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia
- Gustaf Gründgens as Karl August Fürst von Hardenberg
- Lothar Müthel as General von Clausewitz
- Friedrich Kayßler as General Kleist von Nollendorf
- Raoul Aslan as General McDonald
- Hans Rehmann as Lt. Rüdiger Heyking
- Walter Janssen as Vicomte Noailles
- Günther Hadank as Florian von Seydlitz
- Theodor Loos as Roeder
- Paul Otto as Natzmer
- Otto Wallburg as Field Marshal Count Diebitsch-Sabalkanskij
- Jakob Tiedtke as Krause
References
- ^ Noack p.59
Bibliography
- Noack, Frank. Veit Harlan: The Life and Work of a Nazi Filmmaker. University Press of Kentucky, 2016.
External links
- Yorck at IMDb
- Yorck at Virtual History
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Films directed by Gustav Ucicky
- Die Pratermizzi (1926)
- Café Elektric (1927)
- A Better Master (1928)
- Restless Hearts (1928)
- The Convict from Istanbul (1929)
- The Flute Concert of Sanssouci (1930)
- Hocuspocus (1930)
- The Temporary Widow (1930)
- Yorck (1931)
- In the Employ of the Secret Service (1931)
- Man Without a Name (1932)
- Morgenrot (1933)
- Refugees (1933)
- At the End of the World (1934)
- The Young Baron Neuhaus (1934)
- Night in May (1934)
- Joan of Arc (1935)
- Under Blazing Heavens (1936)
- Savoy Hotel 217 (1936)
- The Broken Jug (1937)
- Frau Sixta (1938)
- Uproar in Damascus (1939)
- A Mother's Love (1939)
- Der Postmeister (1940)
- Heimkehr (1941)
- Late Love (1943)
- The Heart Must Be Silent (1944)
- After the Storm (1948)
- Cordula (1950)
- The Chaplain of San Lorenzo (1953)
- The Witch (1954)
- A Life for Do (1954)
- The Hunter of Fall (1956)
- The Saint and Her Fool (1957)
- The Priest and the Girl (1958)
- The Girl from the Marsh Croft (1958)
- The Inheritance of Bjorndal (1960)
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