Vanina

Name: Vanina
Director: Arthur von Gerlach
Genre: Drama
Released: 1922
Duration: 1 h 9 min
Cast: Asta Nielsen, Paul Wegener, Paul Hartmann, Albrecht Viktor Blum, Bernhard Goetzke

1922 Drama 69 minutes Directed by Arthur von Gerlach

About Vanina

Vanina loves the rebel leader Octavio. He is caught, pardoned, and marries her. Captured again, he escapes with her help. Both are taken. He is executed, and she dies of grief. Asta Nielsen plays Vanina. Paul Wegener and Paul Hartmann are billed with her. The German title is Vanina oder Die Galgenhochzeit. The story is set in Italy.

Cast & crew

More about Vanina

Arthur von Gerlach directed. Carl Mayer wrote it. Frederik Fuglsang photographed it. Walter Reimann did the art direction. UFA released it on 6 October 1922. Wikidata times it at 69 minutes. It was shot at Tempelhof. Albrecht Viktor Blum, Bernhard Goetzke, and Raoul Lange are on the catalog cast. Copies are on the Internet Archive and on Wikimedia Commons.

Themes

A rebel pardoned into a marriage
A second capture
Grief after the execution
Vanina
Octavio
Asta Nielsen
Paul Wegener
gallows
Italy

Look

Frederik Fuglsang photographed Nielsen and Wegener on Reimann's sets at Tempelhof.

Preservation

Copies are on the Internet Archive and Wikimedia Commons.

Notes

Galgenhochzeit means a wedding at the gallows.
The pardon and the marriage come before the second capture.
The Internet Archive identifier is silent-vanina-oder-die-galgenhochzeit.

Scenes

Octavio is pardoned and marries Vanina.
After the execution she dies of grief.

Also available

Internet Archive (silent-vanina-oder-die-galgenhochzeit)