Wandering Souls

Wandering Souls
Directed by	Carl Froelich
Produced by	Erich Pommer
Written by	Fyodor Dostoyevsky (novel) Walter Supper Carl Froelich
Starring	Asta Nielsen Alfred Abel Walter Janssen Guido Herzfeld
Cinematography	Axel Graatkjær
Production company	Russo Film
Distributed by	Decla-Bioscop
Release dates	3 March 1921
Country	Germany
Language	Silent German intertitles

Wandering Souls (German:Irrende Seelen) is a 1921 German silent drama film directed by Carl Froelich and starring Asta Nielsen, Alfred Abel and Walter Janssen. It was based on the 1869 novel The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The film was the first of three to be made by Russo Film, a small production company set up by Decla-Bioscop to make literary adaptations.^[1] It premiered on 3 March 1921 at the Marmorhaus in Berlin.^[2]

Cast

Asta Nielsen as Nastassja Baraschkowa
Alfred Abel as Parfen, Rogoschins Sohn
Walter Janssen as Prinz Myschkin
Guido Herzfeld as Semjon Rogoschin
Lyda Salmonova as Tochter Aglaia Jepantschin
Maria Connard as Gawrils Mutter Nina Alexandrowna
Lili Donecker as Marie
Eugenia Eduardowa as Solotänzerin
Leonhard Haskel as General Jepantschin
Simon Konarski as Eugen Ratomsky
Adolf E. Licho as Herr Lebedoff
Lydia Potechina as Alte Gutsbesitzerin
Auguste Prasch-Grevenberg as Frau Rogoschin
Frida Richard as Maries Mutter
Ernst Rotmund as Gawril Iwolgin-Ganja
Lydia Savitzky as Tochter Adelaida Jepantschin
Erika Unruh as Gawrils Schwester Warwara
Marga von Kierska as Tochter Alexandra Jepantschin
Vasilij Vronski as Trotzky
Elsa Wagner as Frau Jepantschin
Sylvia Torf

References

↑ Hardt p.52-53
↑ Hardt p.223

Bibliography

Hardt, Ursula. From Caligari to California: Erich Pommer's life in the International Film Wars. Berghahn Books, 1996.

External links

The films of Carl Froelich

The Destiny of Carola van Geldern (1919)
The Dancer (1919)
Wandering Souls (1921)
The Kwannon of Okadera (1921)
The Brothers Karamazov (1921)
The Good for Nothings (1922)
Luise Millerin (1922)
Hallig Hooge (1923)
Mother and Child (1924)
The Adventures of Sybil Brent (1925)
Chamber Music (1925)
Roses from the South (1926)
The Long Intermission (1927)
Love in the Cowshed (1928)
Lotte (1928)
Love and Thieves (1928)
Escape (1928)
Violantha (1928)
The Night Belongs to Us (1929)
Louise, Queen of Prussia (1931)
Mädchen in Uniform (1931)
Trouble with Jolanthe (1934)
Sergeant Schwenke (1935)
The Private Life of Louis XIV (1935)
The Dreamer (1936)
If We All Were Angels (1936)
Such Great Foolishness (1937)
Heimat (1938)
The Roundabouts of Handsome Karl (1938)
The Four Companions (1938)
The Life and Loves of Tschaikovsky (1939)
The Gasman (1941)
Wedding in Barenhof (1942)
The Buchholz Family (1944)

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