Misled Youth

Misled Youth
Directed by	Richard Löwenbein
Written by	G.D. Farago C.C. Fürst O. Karpfen S.P. Maitinsky
Starring	Fritz Alberti Erna Morena Dolly Davis Otto Reinwald
Cinematography	Axel Graatkjær
Production company	Mondial-Film
Distributed by	Mondial-Film
Release date	February 1929 (1929-02)
Country	Germany
Languages	Silent German intertitles

Misled Youth (German: Verirrte Jugend) or Youth Gone Astray is a 1929 German silent drama film directed by Richard Löwenbein and starring Fritz Alberti, Erna Morena, and Dolly Davis. It was one of a number of enlightenment films [de] during the Weimar Era that addressed the issue of juvenile delinquency.[1] The film's art direction was by Hans Jacoby.

Cast

• Fritz Alberti as van Straaten
• Erna Morena as Norma, seine Frau
• Dolly Davis as Hilde, die Tochter
• Otto Reinwald as Georg, der Sohn
• Magnus Stifter as von Holstein, Kommandant der Kadettenschule
• Eva Speyer as Maria von Holstein, seine Frau
• Rolf von Goth as Kurt, der Sohn
• Hanni Reinwald as Trude, die Tochter
• Vera Baranovskaya as Witwe Kröger
• Martin Herzberg as Helmut, ihr Sohn
• El' Dura as Nigo, Mulattenmädchen
• Raimondo Van Riel as Der 'Bananenpeter'
• Adele Sandrock as Rosa, seine Frau
• Frydell as Der 'dicke Julius'
• Molly Stengrit as Die 'dicke Berta'
• Heinrich Schroth as Kriminalkommissar
• Ferdinand Bonn as Professor im Gymnasium

References

1. Prawer, p. 86.

Bibliography

• Prawer, Siegbert Salomon (2005). Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910–1933. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-84545-074-8.

External links

• Misled Youth at IMDb