| The Earl of Essex | |
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| Directed by | Peter Paul Felner |
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| Production company | National Film |
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| Country | Germany |
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The Earl of Essex (German: Der Graf von Essex) is a 1922 German silent historical film directed by Peter Paul Felner and starring Eugen Klöpfer, Fritz Kortner and Werner Krauss. It was loosely based on the 1761 play Der Graf von Essex by Peter von Stüven set in Elizabethan England and based in turn on the 1678 work Le Comte d'Essex by Thomas Corneille.
Cast
- Eugen Klöpfer - Earl of Essex
- Fritz Kortner - Lord Nottingham
- Werner Krauss
- Friedrich Kühne - Cecil
- Eva May - Lady Rutland
- Erna Morena - Lady Nottingham
- Charles Puffy - Cuff
- Magnus Stifter - Lord Southampton
- Agnes Straub - Queen Elisabeth I
- Rosa Valetti
- Ferdinand von Alten - Raleigh
Bibliography
- Bergfelder, Tim & Bock, Hans-Michael. The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopedia of German. Berghahn Books, 2009.
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- 1922 films
- 1920s historical films
- Films of the Weimar Republic
- German historical films
- German silent feature films
- Films directed by Peter Paul Felner
- Films set in England
- Films set in London
- German films based on plays
- Films set in the 16th century
- National Film films
- German black-and-white films
- 1920s German films
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