The Secret Courier

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The Secret Courier
The Secret Courier.jpg
Directed by Gennaro Righelli
Written by Curt J. Braun
Walter Jonas
Stendhal (novel The Red and the Black )
Produced by Marcel Hellman
Herman Millakowsky
Starring Lil Dagover
Ivan Mozzhukhin
Agnes Petersen
Cinematography Friedrich Weinmann
Music by Giuseppe Becce
Production
company
Greenbaum-Film
Distributed by Terra Film
Release date
25 October 1928
Running time
116 minutes
CountryGermany
LanguagesSilent
German intertitles

The Secret Courier (German: Der geheime Kurier) is a 1928 German silent adventure film directed by Gennaro Righelli and starring Lil Dagover, Ivan Mozzhukhin and Agnes Petersen. [1] It is based on the classic novel The Red and the Black by Stendhal, which Righelli later remade as a sound film The Courier of the King in 1947. The film was shot at the Terra Studios in Berlin. The film's art direction was by Otto Erdmann and Hans Sohnle.

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References

  1. Bock & Bergfelder p.77

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