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Cagliostro (1929 film)
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Wikipedia article
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'Cagliostro' is a 1929 silent drama film directed by Richard Oswald and starring Hans Stwe, Rene Hribel and Alfred Abel. It depicts the life of the eighteenth century Italian occultist Alessandro Cagliostro, portraying him more sympathetically than in most other works.Prawer p. 86 It was based on a novel by Johannes von Guenther.
Cast
Release
'Caligostro' premiered in Berlin on 8 April 1929. It was later shown in Paris on 21 May 1929. In the early 1930s, Universal Pictures planned a 'Cagliostro' film starring Boris Karloff in the title role, which was later re-written into the script for 'The Mummy'.
Reception
A reviewer in 'Variety' commented on the film on a screening in Germany, stating that "Richard Oswald always gets somebody to invest money again in his productions and always turns out about the same sort of product. A lot of pomp, scenery and costumes and nothing that grips in the acting line." and that Oswald "leaves Continental audiences as cold as he would American ones."
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