The White Devil (1930 film)

The White Devil
Directed by Alexandre Volkoff
Written by Leo Tolstoy (novella)
Michel Linsky
Alexandre Volkoff
Produced by Noë Bloch
Gregor Rabinovitch
Starring Ivan Mozzhukhin
Lil Dagover
Betty Amann
Fritz Alberti
Cinematography Curt Courant
Reimar Kuntze
Nikolai Toporkoff
Music by Michael Lewin
Marc Roland
Willy Schmidt-Gentner
Production
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Distributed by UFA
Release date
 29 January 1930
Running time
 110 minutes
Country Germany
Language German

The White Devil (German: Der weiße Teufel) is a 1930 German historical drama film directed by Alexandre Volkoff and starring Ivan Mozzhukhin, Lil Dagover and Betty Amann. It was based on Leo Tolstoy's 1912 novella Hadji Murat. It was originally made as a silent film, with a soundtrack added later. Anatole Litvak worked as the film's assistant director and production manager. It was shot at the Bebelberg Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Alexandre Lochakoff and Vladimir Meingard. After location shooting in Nice, Switzerland and the French Alps during 1929, it premiered at the Ufa-Palast am Zoo in January 1930.

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