I.N.R.I. (film)
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Bayerische Film | |
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| Country | Germany |
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I.N.R.I. is a 1923 German
Jesus Christ. It was based on a 1905 novel by Peter Rosegger
. It was reissued in 1933 in the United States with an added music track and narration as Crown of Thorns.
The film uses a
Christmas Day 1923.[3]
The film was shot over 90 days between May and September 1923extras. The film's art direction was by Ernő Metzner. In scale and length, it was the largest film directed by Wiene during his career.[4]
Cast
- Jesus Christus
- Henny Porten as Maria
- Asta Nielsen as Maria Magdalena
- Pontius Pilatus
- Emanuel Reicher as High Priest Kaiphas
- Alexander Granach as Judas Ischariot
- Theodor Becker as the Roman commander
- Robert Taube as Priest Annas
- Bruno Ziener as Simon Petrus
- Hans Heinrich von Twardowski as John
- Emil Lind as Thomas
- Max Kronert as James the Great
- Herr Magnus as James the Less
- Walter Neumann as Matthew
- Guido Herzfeld as Simon
- Wilhelm Nagel as Philippus
- Lionel Royce as Bartholomew
- Eduard Kandl as Andrew
- Walter Werner as Lebdäus
- Paul Graetz as Jairus
- Maria Kryshanovskaya as Jairus's daughter
- Mathilde Sussin as the paralytic woman
- Erik Ode as young Jesus
- Erwin Kalser as the prisoner
- Elsa Wagner as the mother
- Erich Walter as the monk
- Ernst Dernburg as Judge
- Gustav Oberg as Prosecutor
- Jaro Fürth as Defense lawyer
- Pavel Pavlov as the jail guardian
See also
References
- ^ Jung & Schatzberg, pp. 107–108.
- ^ Jung & Schatzberg, pp. 109–110.
- ^ a b Jung & Schatzberg, p. 212.
- ^ Jung & Schatzberg, p. 107.
Bibliography
- Jung, Uli; Schatzberg, Walter (1999). Beyond Caligari: The Films of Robert Wiene. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-156-1.
External links
- I.N.R.I. at IMDb
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