Lützow's Wild Hunt (German: Lützows wilde verwegene Jagd) is a 1927 German silent war film.
The 1927 German silent war film was directed by Richard Oswald and starring Ernst Rückert, Arthur Wellin and Mary Kid. The film's art direction was by Ernst Stern. It is part of the cycle of Prussian films and portrays the fight of Prussian troops under the command of Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow against the French during the Napoleonic Wars, commemorated in the poetry of Theodor Körner.
Cast
Ernst Rückert as Theodor Körner
Arthur Wellin as Major von Lützow
Mary Kid as Toni Adamberger, Schauspielerin am Burgtheater
Paul Bildt as Napoleon Bonaparte
Wera Engels as Eleanore Prochaska, ein Bürgermädchen
Gerd Briese as Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz
Sig Arno as Franz I of Austria
Leopold von Ledebur as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Albert Steinrück as Ludwig van Beethoven
Friedrich Kühne as Klemens von Metternich
Harry Nestor as Friedrich Wilhelm III, King of Prussia
Robert Hartberg as Archduke Franz Karl of Austria
Carl Zickner as Joseph Fouché
Eduard von Winterstein as Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher
Paul Marx as Hardenberg
Eugen Jensen as Freiherr vom Stein
Josef Karma as Direktor des Burgtheaters
Hugo Döblin as Burgtheaterfaktotum
Emil Sondermann as Schmierendirektor
Theodor Burghardt
References
Bibliography
Prawer, S.S. Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933. Berghahn Books, 2005.