Cagliostro (1929)
59m
Running Time
April 8, 1929Release Date
Plot.
Paris, France, 1784. After living many tribulations, Joseph Balsamo, known as Count Cagliostro, an infamous adventurer, enigmatic magician and necromancer, experienced physician and ruthless swordsman, triumphs among the members of the decadent French aristocracy. But a bold foretelling about a very prominent noblewoman causes his fall in disgrace… (Partially lost film.)
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Cast & Crew.
Hans Stüwe
Cagliostro
Charles Dullin
Count of Breteil
Edmond van Daële
Louis XVI
Renée Héribel
Lorenza
Alfred Abel
Prince de Rohan
Ivan Koval-Samborskyi
Benito
Jules Moy
Bohmer
Richard Oswald
Director
Georges Deneubourg
Basange
Herbert Juttke
Writer
Georg C. Klaren
Writer
Suzanne Bianchetti
Marie-Antoinette
Johannes von Günther
Writer
Alexandre Kamenka
Producer
Illa Meery
Countess Jeanne de la Motte
Rina De Liguoro
Marquise Laura Espada
Alice Tissot
Duchess of Mittau
René Donnio
Chevreau
Eugène Lourié
Costume Designer
Marcel Carné
Assistant Director
Jules Kruger
Director of Photography
Lazare Meerson
Art Direction
Jean Dréville
Technical Supervisor
Werner Schmidt-Boelcke
Original Music Composer
Maurice Desfassiaux
Director of Photography
Alexander Ferenczy
Art Direction
Jean Soulat
Still Photographer
Wladimir Zederbaum
Production Director
Teddy Michaud
Nicolas Rimsky
Andrews Engelmann
Andrée Canti
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Wiki.
Cagliostro is a 1929 silent drama film directed by Richard Oswald and starring Hans Stüwe, Renée Héribel and Alfred Abel. It depicts the life of the eighteenth century Italian occultist Alessandro Cagliostro, portraying him more sympathetically than in most other works. It was based on a novel by Johannes von Guenther.