Two Red Roses
{{short description|1928 film}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Two Red Roses
| image = Two Red Roses.jpg
| caption =
| director = Robert Land
| producer =
| writer = Robert Liebmann
| starring = {{ubl|Liane Haid|Alexander Murski|Harry Halm}}
| music = {{ubl|Walter Kollo|Werner Schmidt-Boelcke}}
| cinematography = Arthur Martinelli
| editing =
| studio = Deutsche Film Union
| distributor = Deutsche First National Pictures
| released = {{Film date|1929|04|22|df=yes}}
| runtime =
| country = Germany
| language = {{ubl|Silent|German intertitles}}
| budget =
}}
Two Red Roses ({{langx|de|Zwei rote Rosen}}) is a 1928 German silent film directed by Robert Land and starring Liane Haid, Alexander Murski, and Harry Halm.Wlaschin p. 181 The film was released in a sound version in England by First National Pathé.{{cite book|author=Ken Wlaschin|title=The Silent Cinema in Song, 1896–1929: An Illustrated History and Catalog of Songs Inspired by the Movies and Stars, with a List of Recordings|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZmL0AAAAMAAJ|year=2009|publisher=McFarland & Company|isbn=978-0-7864-3804-4|page=181}} While the sound version has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process.
The film's art direction was by Andrej Andrejew.
Cast
- Liane Haid as Friedel Schulze
- Alexander Murski as Direktor Eriksen
- Harry Halm as Hans, sein Sohn
- Oskar Marion as Ernst Ritter, Komponist
- Oreste Bilancia as Generaldirektor Bergen
- Trude Hesterberg as Eugenie, seine Frau
- La Jana as Lilli, seine Tochter
- Gyula Szőreghy as Rothe
- Teddy Bill as Georg
Music
The sound version features a theme song entitled “Two Red
Roses” by Ralph Stanley (words) and Walter Kollo (music).
References
{{Reflist}}
Bibliography
- Ken Wlaschin. The Silent Cinema in Song, 1896–1929: An Illustrated History and Catalog of Songs Inspired by the Movies and Stars, with a List of Recordings. McFarland & Company, 2009.
External links
- {{IMDb title|0447568}}
Category:Films of the Weimar Republic
Category:German silent feature films
Category:Films directed by Robert Land
Category:German black-and-white films
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