Love, Death and the Devil (German: Liebe, Tod und Teufel) is a 1934 German drama film directed by Heinz Hilpert and Reinhart Steinbicker and starring Käthe von Nagy, Albin Skoda and Brigitte Horney.[1] It is based on Robert Louis Stevenson's story The Bottle Imp.[2]
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Based on | The Bottle Imp by Robert Louis Stevenson |
Produced by | Karl Ritter |
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Cinematography | Fritz Arno Wagner |
Edited by | Wolfgang Becker |
Music by | Theo Mackeben |
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Distributed by | UFA |
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Running time | 105 minutes |
Country | Germany |
Language | German |
The film's sets were designed by the art director Otto Hunte and Willy Schiller. The following year UFA's French subsidiary released a French-language version of the film The Devil in the Bottle.
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- Käthe von Nagy as Kokua
- Albin Skoda as Kiwe
- Brigitte Horney as Ruby
- Karl Hellmer as Lopaka
- Aribert Wäscher as Mounier
- Erich Ponto as The Old Man
- Paul Dahlke as The Governor
- Rudolf Platte as Spunda
- Josef Dahmen as Macco
- Hans Kettler as Balmer
- Karl Hannemann as Hein
- Oskar Sima as Kiano
- Albert Florath as The Notary
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Bibliography edit
- Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9.
- Hull, David Stewart (1973). Film in the Third Reich: Art and Propaganda in Nazi Germany. New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-671-21486-9.
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