The Beggar Countess

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The Beggar Countess
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German film poster
German Die Bettelgräfin
Directed by Joe May
Bruno Ziener
Written by Ruth Goetz
Joe May
Produced byJoe May
Starring
CinematographyMax Lutze
Production
company
May-Film
Distributed by UFA
Release date
  • 29 November 1918 (1918-11-29)
CountryGermany
Languages Silent
German intertitles

The Beggar Countess (German : Die Bettelgräfin) is a 1918 German silent film directed by Joe May and Bruno Ziener and starring Mia May, Heinrich Peer, and Johannes Riemann. [1]

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  1. Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York, NY: Berghahn Books. p. 104. ISBN   1571816550. JSTOR   j.ctt1x76dm6.