Why Cry at Parting?

Why Cry at Parting?
Directed by	Richard Eichberg
Written by	Alfred Halm Friedrich Stein
Produced by	Richard Eichberg
Starring	Dina Gralla Harry Halm Paul Morgan
Cinematography	Heinrich Gärtner
Music by	Hans May
Production companies	Richard Eichberg-Film British International Pictures UFA
Distributed by	Süd-Film (Germany)
Release date	15 August 1929 (1929-08-15)
Running time	88 minutes
Countries	Germany United Kingdom
Languages	Silent German intertitles

Why Cry at Parting? (German : Wer wird denn weinen, wenn man auseinandergeht?) is a 1929 British-German silent film directed by Richard Eichberg and starring Dina Gralla, Harry Halm and Paul Morgan. ^[1]

The film's sets were designed by the art directors Willi Herrmann, Herbert O. Phillips and Werner Schlichting. It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin and on location in Southampton.

Cast

• Dina Gralla as Sybil Werner
• Harry Halm as Frank Western, Prokurist von Harder & Co.
• Paul Morgan as Harder, Chef des Bankhauses Harder & Co.
• Antonie Jaeckel as Mrs. Harder, seine Frau
• Lottina Baart as Agathe, seine Tochter
• S.Z. Sakall as Gottgetreu, Kassierer von Harder & Co.
• Paul Hörbiger as Tortoni, ein Illusionist
• Vera Voronina as Pamela, seine Partnerin
• Gerhard Pechner sings: "Casanova"
• Maria Forescu
• Else Reval
• Adi Seitz as Adelheid
• Sylvia Torf
• Felix Verna as Black Dancer
• Michael von Newlinsky

References

1. Bock & Bergfelder p. 466

Bibliography

• Hans-Michael Bock and Tim Bergfelder. The Concise Cinegraph: An Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.

External links

• Why Cry at Parting? at IMDb