director: Gustav Ucicky
year: 1931
country: Germany

Prussia, 1812: Prussia is forced by a treaty to support the French troops in their advance towards Moscow. General Yorck wants to be released from service, but is made commander of the Prussian corps and sent to aid Napoleon. Reluctantly, he complies. When he hears that the French army has been beaten and is in retreat, he sees his chance to free Prussia from Napoleon. He resists the order of the French Marshall Macdonald to go into battle, and instead accepts the invitation of Russian Field Marshal Diebitsch to go to Poscheruner Mill, where he signs the Convention of Taurogen. King Friedrich Wilhelm III finally recognizes Prussia's growing dependency on France, and tears up the treaty, admitting Yorck is right. Yorck arrives in Berlin and is celebrated as a hero by the people there.

Assistant Director: Eduard von Borsody.
Screenplay: Arthur Pohl, Hans Müller, Robert Liebmann.
Director of Photography: Carl Hoffmann.
Camera Assistants: Willi Klitzke, Günther Anders.
Still photography: Willi Klitzke.
Set Design: Robert Herlth, Walter Röhrig.
Make-up: Wilhelm Weber, Ernst Schülke, Oscar Schmidt.
Costumes: Theaterkunst Hermann J. Kaufmann.
Editing: Eduard von Borsody.
Sound: Walter Tjaden.
Music: Werner Schmidt-Boelcke.
Music Director: Werner Schmidt-Boelcke.
Choreography: Jens Keith.
Cast: Jürgen von Alten, Lutz Altschul [aka Louis Victor Arco], Raoul Aslan (Marschall Macdonald), Carl Balhaus, Alfred Beierle, Gerhard Bienert, Hans Brausewetter, Rudolf Forster (King Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia), Carl Goetz, Gustaf Gründgens (Karl August Fürst von Hardenberg), Günther Hadank (Seydlitz), Veit Harlan, Oskar Höcker, William Huch, Walter Janssen (Viscount Noailles), Friedrich Kayßler (General Graf Kleist von Nollendorf), Werner Krauß (General Yorck von Wartenberg), Theodor Loos (Roeder), Arthur Mainzer, Hans Joachim Moebis, Grete Mosheim (Barbara von Wartenberg, daughter), Lothar Müthel (General von Clausewitz), Paul Otto (Natzmer), Hans Rehmann (Lieutenant Rüdiger Heyking), Heinrich Schroth, Fritz Staudte, Jakob Tiedtke (Krause), Otto Wallburg (Field Marshal Graf Diebitsch-Sabalkanskij).
Production Company: Universum-Film AG (UFA), Berlin.
Producer: Ernst Hugo Correll.
Production Manager: Oscar Schmidt.
Unit Manager: Eduard Kubat.
Shoot: 1 Sept 1931 to 13 Oct 1931.
Locations: Neubabelsberg and Berlin (Brandenburger Tor amongst others).
Length: 10 acts, 2793 m, 102 minutes.
Format: 35 mm.
Picture/Sound: b/w, Tobis-Klangfilm.
Censorship Details: 18 Dec 1931, B.30626, g-rated.
Première: 23 Dec 1931, Berlin (Ufa-Palast am Zoo) and Dresden (U.-T.- Lichtspiele).
Copyright Holder: Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung, Wiesbaden

Source notes
Deutsche Kinemathek - Museum für Film und Fernsehen

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