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The Count of Cagliostro (German: Der Graf von Cagliostro) is a 1920 Austrian silent horror film directed and co-written by Reinhold Schünzel and starring Schünzel, Anita Berber and Conrad Veidt.[1] It depicts the life of the eighteenth century Italian mesmerist and occultist Alessandro Cagliostro. The film's art direction was by Oscar Werndorff and Carl Hoffmann handled the cinematography. Some sources list this film as a German production. It is today considered a lost film, and little is known about it.[2] It is listed simply as Cagliostro in some film references.

This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. (September 2015)

The Count of Cagliostro
Directed by	Reinhold Schünzel
Written by	Robert Liebmann Reinhold Schünzel
Produced by	Victor Micheluzzi Reinhold Schünzel
Starring	Reinhold Schünzel Anita Berber Conrad Veidt Carl Goetz
Cinematography	Carl Hoffmann Kurt Lande
Production companies	Lichtbild-Fabrikation Schünzel-Film (Berlin) Vereinigte Filmindustrie Micheluzzi & Co (Micco-Film) (Vienna)
Release date	7 January 1920
Country	Austria
Languages	Silent German intertitles

Director Schuenzel cast himself in the starring role, and hired Conrad Veidt to merely play a minister in the film, when Veidt was much better suited at the time for the lead. Schuenzel went on to become a noted actor in later years, even appearing in American-made films such as Dreagonwyck and Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious (both 1946).[3] Cameraman Carl Hoffmann went on to work for Fritz Lang and F.W. Murnau, before becoming a director himself in 1928.[4]

Cast

• Reinhold Schünzel as Cagliostro
• Anita Berber as Lorenza, Cagliostro's slave
• Conrad Veidt as the Minister
• Carl Goetz as the Prince
• Hugo Werner-Kahle as Cagliostro's servant
• Hanni Weisse as the Favorite of the Prince
• Hilde Wörner [de] as the Maid of the Favorite
• Walter Huber
• Heinrich Jensen
• Armin Seydelmann
• Ferry Sikla

References

Bibliography

• Hutchings, Peter. The A to Z of Horror Cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2009.

External links

• The Count of Cagliostro at IMDb

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