By Order of Pompadour

{{Short description|1924 film}}

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{{Infobox film

|name = By Order of Pompadour

|image = By Order of Pompadour.jpg

|caption = German film poster

|native_name = {{Infobox name module|de|Auf Befehl der Pompadour}}

|director = Frederic Zelnik

|writer = René Ferry
Alfred Halm

|starring = {{ubl|Alwin Neuß|Lya Mara|Frida Richard}}

|music = Willy Schmidt-Gentner

|cinematography = Edoardo Lamberti
Georg Muschner

|studio = Phoebus Film

|distributor = Phoebus Film

|released = {{Film date|1924|9|25|df=yes}}

|runtime = 100 minutes

|country = Germany

|language = Silent
German intertitles

}}

By Order of Pompadour ({{langx|de|Auf Befehl der Pompadour}}) is a 1924 German silent historical film directed by Frederic Zelnik and starring Alwin Neuß, Lya Mara, and Frida Richard.{{cite book|last=Grange|first=William|author-link=William Grange|title=Cultural Chronicle of the Weimar Republic|publisher=Scarecrow Press|location=Lanham, MD|year=2008|page=179|isbn=978-0-8108-5967-8}}

The film's sets were designed by the art director Willi Herrmann.