# A Free People

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1925 film directed by Martin Berger

A Free People Directed by Martin Berger Written by Martin Berger Starring Albert Florath Ellen Plessow Cinematography Willy Großstück Paul Holzki Production company Veritas-Film Release date 25 November 1925 (1925-11-25) Country Germany Languages Silent German intertitles

***A Free People*** ([German](/source/German_language): ***Freies Volk***) is a 1925 German [silent](/source/Silent_film) [drama film](/source/Drama_film) directed by Martin Berger and starring [Albert Florath](/source/Albert_Florath) and [Ellen Plessow](/source/Ellen_Plessow).[1] It is now considered a [lost film](/source/Lost_film).

It was one of two films made by Berger under commission from the [SPD](/source/Social_Democratic_Party_of_Germany) along with 1924's *The Forge*. Neither of them were commercial successes on release. The film's [art direction](/source/Art_direction) was by [Robert A. Dietrich](/source/Robert_A._Dietrich).

A [servant](/source/Servant) leads a campaign against the justice of his employer, leading eventually to [civil war](/source/Civil_war) and a [general strike](/source/General_strike).

## Cast

In alphabetical order

- [Rudolf Essek](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rudolf_Essek&action=edit&redlink=1) as Vorsitzender des Gewerkschaftsbundes Anders

- [Albert Florath](/source/Albert_Florath)

- [Emmerich Hanus](/source/Emmerich_Hanus) as Direktor Frank

- [Martin Herzberg](/source/Martin_Herzberg) as Gustel Jessen

- [Adolf Klein](/source/Adolf_Klein)

- [Robert Leffler](/source/Robert_Leffler) as Inspektor Legath

- [Ellen Plessow](/source/Ellen_Plessow) as Fräulein von Woythe

- [Anton Pointner](/source/Anton_Pointner) as Adjutant

- [Paul Rehkopf](/source/Paul_Rehkopf) as Arbeiter Jürgens

- [Georg H. Schnell](/source/Georg_H._Schnell) as Oberst Eckart

- [Maria Simrock](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Maria_Simrock&action=edit&redlink=1) as Frau Jessen

- [Camilla Spira](/source/Camilla_Spira)

- [Fritz Spira](/source/Fritz_Spira) as Großkaufmann Lahr

- [Mathilde Sussin](/source/Mathilde_Sussin) as Frau von Großkaufmann Lahr

- [Eduard von Winterstein](/source/Eduard_von_Winterstein) as Administrator von Nehling

- [Elsa Wagner](/source/Elsa_Wagner) as Frau Karg

- [Walter Werner](/source/Walter_Werner) as Prokurist Karg

- [Mathias Wieman](/source/Mathias_Wieman)

- [Heinrich Witte](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Heinrich_Witte&action=edit&redlink=1) as Hausdiener Jessen

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGrange209_1-0)** [Grange](#CITEREFGrange), p. 209.

## Bibliography

- [Grange, William](/source/William_Grange) (2008). *Cultural Chronicle of the Weimar Republic*. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-8108-5967-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8108-5967-8).

- Murray, Bruce Arthur (1990). *Film and the German Left in the Weimar Republic: From Caligari to Kuhle Wampe*. Austin: University of Texas Press. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-292-72465-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-292-72465-5).

## External links

- [*A Free People*](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468314/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier))

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