A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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	Conrad Veidt. Photograph: Silent Era image collection.

Cast: Bruno Decarli [Graf Greven], Conrad Veidt [an Indian priest], Bernhard Goetzke [the manservant], Herman Picha [the minister], Mechthildis Thein [Greven’s lover]

Messter-Film Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung production. / Produced by Oskar Messter. / Scenario by Robert Wiene. Art direction by Ludwig Kainer. / Released September 1917. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama.

Survival status: Prints exist in the Svenska Filminstitutet film archive; and in private film collections [16mm reduction positives].

Current rights holder: Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung.

Listing updated: 2 May 2015.

References: Website-IMDb; Website-Wikipedia.

Home video: DVD.