The Red Peacock

The Red Peacock
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Directed by	Paul L. Stein
Written by	James Ashmore Creelman Hanns Kräly
Produced by	Paul Davidson
Starring	Pola Negri Victor Varconi
Cinematography	Fritz Arno Wagner
Production company	PAGU
Distributed by	UFA
Release date	25 December 1920 (1920-12-25)
Country	Germany
Language	Silent (German intertitles)

The Red Peacock (German: Arme Violetta) is a 1920 German silent film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Pola Negri and Victor Varconi. ^[1] It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios and distributed by UFA. Long thought lost, the film was rediscovered in a New York basement in 2020. ^[2]

Cast

• Pola Negri as Violetta Duclos
• Alexander Antalffy as Gaston
• Paul Biensfeldt as Alfred's father
• Michael Bohnen
• Ernst Bringolf
• Guido Herzfeld as Violetta's father
• Paul Otto as Graf von Geray
• Greta Schröder as Alfred's sister
• Victor Varconi as Alfred Germont
• Marga von Kierska as Flora

References

1. Kotowski p.214
2. "Pola Negri Lost Film on eBay - NitrateVille.com". Archived from the original on 3 December 2020. Retrieved 18 February 2025.

Bibliography

• Mariusz Kotowski. Pola Negri: Hollywood's First Femme Fatale. University Press of Kentucky, 2014.

External links

• The Red Peacock at IMDb