Directed by: | Joe May (parts 1 - 4 & 8); Uwe Jens Krafft (parts 5 & 6); Karl Gerhardt (part 7).* |
Written by: | Joe May, Richard Hutter (parts 1 - 6), Ruth Goetz (parts 1, 5, 7), Wilhelm Roellinghoff (parts 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8), Fritz Lang (part 8) (from the novel by Karl Figdor). |
Production company: | May Film GmbH, Berlin. |
Executive Producer: | Joe May. |
Photography: | Werner Brandes**. |
Set design: | Martin Jacoby-Boy, Otto Hunte, Erich Kettelhut, Karl Vollbrecht. |
Cast: | Mia May (Maud Gregaards***), Michael Bohnen (consul Madsen) (parts 1 - 5), Henry Sze (Dr. Kien-Lung) (parts 1 - 4), Hans Mierendorff (Baron Murphy) (parts 2, 7, 8), Paul Hansen (engineer Allen Stanley****) (parts 5 - 7); Only 1st part: Lewis Brody (Chinese servant), Nien Söng Ling; Only 4th part: Bamboula (King Makombe); Only 6th part: Paul Morgan (Pius Gotthelf Karpeles), Wilhelm Diegelmann (Harrison), Hermann Picha (Fletcher), Victor Janson (newspaper reporter Bullbox) Lewis Brody (Simba) (also in part 5); Only 7th & 8th part: Ernst Hofmann (Credo Merville); Only 8th part: Rudolph Lettinger (detective Hunt), Henry Bender (stock-broker). |
Filmed at: | Greenbaum-Atelier Berlin-Weißensee, May Film lot Woltersdorf. |
Released: | 1st part: 1919, December 05, Tauentzien-Palast, Berlin; 2nd part: 1919, December 12, Tauentzien-Palast, Berlin; 3rd part: 1919, December 19, Tauentzien-Palast, Berlin; 4th part: 1919, December 26, Tauentzien-Palast, Berlin; 5th part: 1920, January 09, Tauentzien-Palast, Berlin; 6th part: 1920, January 16, Tauentzien-Palast, Berlin; 7th part: 1920, January 23, Tauentzien-Palast, Berlin; 8th part: 1920, January 30, Tauentzien-Palast, Berlin. |
Remakes: | 1960: Herrin der Welt (Germany, William Dieterle). |
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