The White Devil (1930 film)

The White Devil (German: Der weiße Teufel) is a 1930 German historical drama film directed by Alexandre Volkoff and starring Ivan Mozzhukhin, Lil Dagover and Betty Amann. It was based on Leo Tolstoy's 1912 novella Hadji Murat.[1] It was originally made as a silent film, with a soundtrack added later. Anatole Litvak worked as the film's assistant director and production manager. It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Alexandre Lochakoff and Vladimir Meingard. After location shooting in Nice, Switzerland and the French Alps during 1929, it premiered at the Ufa-Palast am Zoo in January 1930.

The White Devil
Directed byAlexandre Volkoff
Written byLeo Tolstoy (novella)
Michel Linsky
Alexandre Volkoff
Produced byNoë Bloch
Gregor Rabinovitch
StarringIvan Mozzhukhin
Lil Dagover
Betty Amann
Fritz Alberti
CinematographyCurt Courant
Reimar Kuntze
Nikolai Toporkoff
Music byMichael Lewin
Marc Roland
Willy Schmidt-Gentner
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Distributed byUFA
Release date
  • 29 January 1930 (1930-01-29)
Running time
110 minutes
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman
Full film

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References

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  1. ^ Kreimeier p. 167

Bibliography

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  • Kreimeier, Klaus. The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918–1945. University of California Press, 1999.[ISBN missing]
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