A Free People

{{short description|1925 film directed by Martin Berger}} {{use dmy dates|date=February 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = A Free People | image = | caption = | director = Martin Berger | producer = | writer = Martin Berger | narrator = | starring = {{ubl|[[Albert Florath]]|[[Ellen Plessow]]}} | music = | editing = | cinematography = {{ubl|[[Willy Großstück]]|[[Paul Holzki]]}} | studio = Veritas-Film | distributor = | released = {{film date|1925|11|25|df=y}} | runtime = | country = Germany | language = {{ubl|Silent|German [[intertitles]]}} | budget = | gross = }} '''''A Free People''''' ({{langx|de|'''Freies Volk'''}}) is a 1925 German [[silent film|silent]] [[drama film]] directed by Martin Berger and starring [[Albert Florath]] and [[Ellen Plessow]].{{sfn|Grange|p=209}} It is now considered a [[lost film]].

It was one of two films made by Berger under commission from the [[Social Democratic Party of Germany|SPD]] along with 1924's ''The Forge''. Neither of them were commercial successes on release. The film's [[art direction]] was by [[Robert A. Dietrich]].

A [[servant]] leads a campaign against the justice of his employer, leading eventually to [[civil war]] and a [[general strike]].

==Cast== <small>In alphabetical order</small> {{cast listing| * [[Rudolf Essek]] as Vorsitzender des Gewerkschaftsbundes Anders * [[Albert Florath]] * [[Emmerich Hanus]] as Direktor Frank * [[Martin Herzberg]] as Gustel Jessen * [[Adolf Klein]] * [[Robert Leffler]] as Inspektor Legath * [[Ellen Plessow]] as Fräulein von Woythe * [[Anton Pointner]] as Adjutant * [[Paul Rehkopf]] as Arbeiter Jürgens * [[Georg H. Schnell]] as Oberst Eckart * [[Maria Simrock]] as Frau Jessen * [[Camilla Spira]] * [[Fritz Spira]] as Großkaufmann Lahr * [[Mathilde Sussin]] as Frau von Großkaufmann Lahr * [[Eduard von Winterstein]] as Administrator von Nehling * [[Elsa Wagner]] as Frau Karg * [[Walter Werner]] as Prokurist Karg * [[Mathias Wieman]] * [[Heinrich Witte]] as Hausdiener Jessen }}

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Bibliography== * {{cite book | ref = {{sfnref|Grange}} | author-link = William Grange | last = Grange | first = William | title = Cultural Chronicle of the Weimar Republic | publisher = Scarecrow Press | year = 2008 | location = Lanham, MD | isbn = 978-0-8108-5967-8 }} * {{cite book | last = Murray | first = Bruce Arthur | title = Film and the German Left in the Weimar Republic: From Caligari to Kuhle Wampe | location = Austin | publisher = University of Texas Press | year = 1990 | isbn = 978-0-292-72465-5}}

==External links== *{{IMDb title|0468314}}

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