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Der Knabe in Blau

  • Germany
  • feature film - Drama
  • 77 min. (1560 m.)
  • Location shooting / Berlin story line

short description

A destitute young man of noble birth has a mysterious link to Gainsboroughs »The Blue Boy«.

Cast

Actor/-ess
Ernst Hofmann (Thomas van Weerth)
Georg John (Dr. Perennius Bell)
Margit Barnay (Lisa Sutroff, a young actress)
Blandine Ebinger (Maja, a beatiful gipsy woman)
Leonhard Haskel (theatre director)
Hedda Kemp (a rolling stone)
Hans Schaup (old butler Dietrich, Thomas butler)
Hans Ottershausen (the raree show man)
Rudolf Klix (Bobby)
Helene Sauer (the lady in veil)
Marie von Bülow (a beggar woman)
Karl Platen (an old butler)

Direction

Director
F. W. Murnau

Writing

Screenplay

Camera & Light

Director of photography
Carl Hoffmann

Decor

Production design
Willi A. Herrmann

Production

Producer
Ernst Hofmann

Companies

Production company
Ernst Hofmann-Film