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The Secret Courier (German: Der geheime Kurier) is a 1928 German silent adventure film directed by Gennaro Righelli and starring Lil Dagover, Ivan Mozzhukhin and Agnes Petersen.[1] It is based on the classic novel The Red and the Black by Stendhal, which Righelli later remade as a sound film The Courier of the King in 1947. The film was shot at the Terra Studios in Berlin. The film's art direction was by Otto Erdmann and Hans Sohnle.

The Secret Courier
Directed by	Gennaro Righelli
Written by	Curt J. Braun Walter Jonas Stendhal (novel The Red and the Black)
Produced by	Marcel Hellman Herman Millakowsky
Starring	Lil Dagover Ivan Mozzhukhin Agnes Petersen
Cinematography	Friedrich Weinmann
Music by	Giuseppe Becce
Production company	Greenbaum-Film
Distributed by	Terra Film
Release date	25 October 1928
Running time	116 minutes
Country	Germany
Languages	Silent German intertitles

Cast

• Lil Dagover as Mme. Thérèse de Renal
• Ivan Mozzhukhin as Julien Sorel
• Agnes Petersen as Mathilde de la Môle
• Félix de Pomés as Norbert de la Môle
• Valeria Blanka as Innkeeper's Daughter
• Hubert von Meyerinck as Duc d'Orléans
• José Davert as Mayor Rénal
• Jean Dax as Marquis de la Môle
• Dillo Lombardi as Abbé

References

Bibliography

• Hans-Michael Bock and Tim Bergfelder. The Concise Cinegraph: An Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.

External links

• The Secret Courier at IMDb

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