The Boy in Blue (1919 film)
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The Boy in Blue is a 1919 silent
German drama film
directed by F. W. Murnau. It was Murnau's debut film. The film is now considered to be a lost film
.
Thomas Gainsborough's painting The Blue Boy
and Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray
were inspirations for Murnau to create this film.
Silent film
A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...
German drama film
Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...
directed by F. W. Murnau. It was Murnau's debut film. The film is now considered to be a lost film
Lost film
A lost film is a feature film or short film that is no longer known to exist in studio archives, private collections or public archives such as the Library of Congress, where at least one copy of all American films are deposited and catalogued for copyright reasons...
.
Thomas Gainsborough's painting The Blue Boy
The Blue Boy
The Blue Boy is an oil painting by Thomas Gainsborough. Perhaps Gainsborough's most famous work, it is thought to be a portrait of Jonathan Buttall, the son of a wealthy hardware merchant, although this was never proved...
and Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only published novel by Oscar Wilde, appearing as the lead story in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine on 20 June 1890, printed as the July 1890 issue of this magazine...
were inspirations for Murnau to create this film.
Cast
- Ernst Hofmann - Thomas von Weerth
- Blandine EbingerBlandine EbingerBlandine Ebinger was a German actress and chansonniere, the daughter of the pianist Gustav Loeser and the actress Margarete Wezel...
- Schöne Zigeunerin / Fair gypsy - Margit Barnay - Junge Schauspielerin / Young actress
- Karl Platen - Alter Diener / Old servant
- Georg JohnGeorg JohnGeorg John was a German stage and film actor.-Early life:Georg John was born in Schmiegel, Province of Posen, Imperial Germany.- Career :John began his career around 1900 in smaller stages and traveling theatres...
- Zigeunerhauptmann / Gypsy commander - Leonhard Haskel - Theaterdirektor
- Marie von Buelow - Bettlerin
- Rudolf Klix - Bobby
- Hedda Kemp - Dame im Schleier
- Hans Otterhausen - Guckkastenmann
- Hans Schaup - Der alte Dietrich - Thomas' Diener