The Green Manuela
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| Directed by | Ewald André Dupont |
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| Produced by | Hanns Lippmann |
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| Distributed by | UFA |
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| Country | Germany |
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The Green Manuela (German: Die grüne Manuela) is a 1923 German silent drama film directed by Ewald André Dupont and starring Lucie Labass, Josef Winter and Grete Berger. The film is based on a novel by Clara Ratzka. A gypsy dancer becomes involved with some smugglers in Spain. The film's plot bears a number of similarities to Carmen.[1] It was the first time Dupont worked with the cinematographer Werner Brandes and the art director Alfred Junge who were to become important collaborators with him.[2]
The poster[3] of this movie is seen in Russian director Dziga Vertov's movie Man with a Movie Camera (1929) playing at a theater named[4] the Proletarian,[5][6] symbolizing Vertov's disdain of Western fanciful films.
Cast
- Lucie Labass as Manuela
- Josef Winter as Carlos Llorrente
- Grete Berger as Frau Gazul
- Kálmán Zátony as Juan Llorrente
- Angelo Ferrari as Count Henri d'Amirón
- Arthur Bergen as Pedro
- Lydia Potechina as Leocadia Barboza
- Louis Ralph as Alfredo
- Geo Bergal as Vincente Delano
- Franz Groß as Old Man Llorrente
- Ari Anzo as Tonia Llorrente
- William Dieterle as Brito
- Giorgio De Giorgetti as Sergeant
References
- ^ Bergfelder & Cargnelli p.28
- ^ Bergfelder & Cargnelli p.28
- ^ "Cinema exterior wall with a mural/poster for the film, 'The Green Manuela', still, Man with a Movie Camera (1929)". Archived from the original on 13 August 2011. Retrieved 13 December 2025.
- ^ "The name of the theatre is the 'Proletarian', still, Man with a Movie Camera (1929)". Archived from the original on 13 August 2011. Retrieved 13 December 2025.
- ^ Tsivian, Yuri (12 April 2011). "Celluloid Manifesto". movingimagesource.us. Moving Image Source. Retrieved 13 December 2025.
The following excerpt is adapted from the introduction to Yuri Tsivian's Lines of Resistance: Dziga Vertov and the Twenties (Pordenone, 2004), reprinted with kind permission of the author.
- ^ Tsivian, Yuri (2004). Tsivian, Yuri (ed.). Lines of Resistance: Dziga Vertov and the Twenties. Sacile, Italy: Giornate del Cinema Muto – via google books preview.
with an introduction by Yuri Tsivian; Russian texts translated by Julian Graffy; filmographic and biographical research, Aleksandr Deriabin; co-researchers, Oksana Sarkisova, Sarah Keller, Theresa Scandiffio.
Bibliography
- Bergfelder, Tim & Cargnelli, Christian. Destination London: German-speaking emigrés and British cinema, 1925-1950. Berghahn Books, 2008.