| The Black Cover | |
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| Directed by | Harry Piel |
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| Produced by | Harry Piel |
| Starring | Harry Piel |
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Production company | Harry Piel Film |
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Running time | 97 minutes |
| Country | Germany |
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The Black Cover (German : Das schwarze Kuvert) is a 1922 German silent film directed by and starring Harry Piel. [1]
The film's art direction was by Willi Herrmann and Albert Korell.
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His Greatest Bluff is a 1927 German silent comedy film directed by Henrik Galeen and Harry Piel and starring Piel, Toni Tetzlaff and Lotte Lorring. Its title is sometimes translated as His Biggest Bluff. Today, the film is best known for the early role it offered to Marlene Dietrich who was only cast after great effort by her agents. The film was shot at the Grunewald Studios, located in Western Berlin, during January and February 1927. It premiered on 12 May 1927 at the Alhambra-Palast in Berlin.
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Elephant Fury is a 1953 West German drama war film directed by and starring Harry Piel. It also features Herbert A.E. Bohme, Hans Zesch-Ballot and Dorothea Wieck. The film had a troubled production history. Originally made between 1940 and 1943 under the title of Panic, it faced censorship problems. Following the end of the Second World War Piel recovered the negative which had fallen into the hands of the occupying Soviet forces. He re-shot some scenes and the film was eventually released more than a decade after it had first begun shooting.
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Men Without Work is a 1929 German silent action film directed by and starring Harry Piel. It was shot at the Staaken Studios in Berlin and on location in Marseille. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Neppach. It premiered at the UFA-Palast am Zoo.
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