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Love, Death and the Devil

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Love, Death and the Devil
Directed by
Written by
Based onThe Bottle Imp by Robert Louis Stevenson
Produced byKarl Ritter
Starring
CinematographyFritz Arno Wagner
Edited byWolfgang Becker
Music byTheo Mackeben
Production
company
Distributed byUFA
Release date
  • 21 December 1934 (1934-12-21)
Running time
105 minutes
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman

Love, Death and the Devil (German: Liebe, Tod und Teufel) is a 1934 German drama film directed by Heinz Hilpert and Reinhart Steinbicker and starring Käthe von Nagy, Albin Skoda and Brigitte Horney.[1] It is based on Robert Louis Stevenson's story The Bottle Imp.[2]

The film's sets were designed by the art director Otto Hunte and Willy Schiller. The following year UFA's French subsidiary released a French-language version of the film The Devil in the Bottle.

Main cast

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References

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  1. ^ Bock & Bergfelder p. 303
  2. ^ Hull p. 67

Bibliography

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  • Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9.
  • Hull, David Stewart (1973). Film in the Third Reich: Art and Propaganda in Nazi Germany. New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-671-21486-9.
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