1914 (film)

1914
Directed by	Richard Oswald
Produced by	Richard Oswald
Written by	Heinz Goldberg Fritz Wendhausen
Starring	Albert Bassermann Hermann Wlach Wolfgang von Schwindt Reinhold Schünzel
Cinematography	Mutz Greenbaum
Edited by	Paul Falkenberg
Production company	Richard-Oswald-Produktion
Distributed by	Atlas Film
Release dates	20 January 1931
Running time	112 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

1914 (German:1914, die letzten Tage vor dem Weltbrand) is a 1931 German drama film directed by Richard Oswald and starring Albert Bassermann, Hermann Wlach and Wolfgang von Schwindt. The film focuses on the leadership of the Great Powers of Europe in the days leading up to the outbreak of the First World War. It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin and premiered in the city at the Tauentzien-Palast on 20 January 1931. At the request of the German Foreign Office an introduction by Eugen Fischer-Baling was filmed and presented at the start of the film. A special screening was held at the Reichstag on 3 March 1931.

Cast

• Albert Bassermann as Count Bethmann-Hollweg
• Hermann Wlach as Count von Jagow
• Wolfgang von Schwindt as Count von Moltke
• Reinhold Schünzel as Czar Nicholas II
• Robert Hartberg as Count Hoyos
• Lucie Höflich as The Czarina
• Ferdinand Hart as Archduke Nicholas
• Oskar Homolka as Sazonov
• Adolf E. Licho as Suchomlinow
• Hans Peppler as Count Pourtales
• Theodor Loos as Paléologue
• Fritz Alberti as Buchanan
• Eugen Klöpfer as Emperor Franz Josef
• Alfred Abel as Count Berchtold
• Victor Jensen as Count Tisza
• Ferdinand von Alten as Viviana
• Bruno Ziener as Count von Schön
• Heinrich George as Jean Jaurès
• Alexander Granach as Friend of Jaurès
• Paul Mederow as Sir Edward Grey
• Fritz Odemar as Prince Lichnowsky
• Carl Goetz as Jules Cambon
• Bernhard Goetzke as King Peter of Serbia
• Olaf Fjord as Crown Prince Alexander
• Adolf Klein as Paschitsch
• Lionel Royce as Maklakow
• Viktor de Kowa as Grand Duke Michael
• Paul Bildt as Nicolson
• Carl Balhaus as Gavrilo Princip
• Eugen Burg as Baron von Giesl
• Ernst Dernburg as Ein General
• Hugo Flink as von Szapary
• Alfred Gerasch as Conrad von Hötzendorff
• Karl Gerhardt as Kettler, Kammerdiener des Kaisers
• Fred Goebel as Großfürst Dimitri
• Alice Hechy as Alexandra Alexandrowna
• Hermann Heilinger as Januskewitsch
• Heinrich Schroth as von Falkenhayn, Kriegsminister
• Karl Staudt as Count Szőgyény-Marich
• Ottó Torday as Graf Stefan Tisza
• Michael von Newlinsky as Untersuchungsrichter
• Eugen Fischer-Baling as Himself in prologue

Bibliography

• Prawer, S.S. Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910–1933. Berghahn Books, 2005.

External links

• 1914 at IMDb