The Secret Courier | |
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Directed by | Gennaro Righelli |
Written by |
Curt J. Braun Walter Jonas Stendhal (novel The Red and the Black) |
Produced by |
Marcel Hellman Herman Millakowsky |
Starring |
Lil Dagover Ivan Mozzhukhin Agnes Petersen |
Cinematography | Friedrich Weinmann |
Music by | Giuseppe Becce |
Production company | Greenbaum-Film |
Distributed by | Terra Film |
Release date | 25 October 1928 |
Running time | 116 minutes |
Country | Germany |
Languages | Silent German intertitles |
The Secret Courier (German: Der geheime Kurier) is a 1928 German silent adventure film directed by Gennaro Righelli and starring Lil Dagover, Ivan Mozzhukhin and Agnes Petersen. [1] It is based on the classic novel The Red and the Black by Stendhal, which Righelli later remade as a sound film The Courier of the King in 1947. The film was shot at the Terra Studios in Berlin. The film's art direction was by Otto Erdmann and Hans Sohnle.