Father Radetzky

{{short description|1929 film}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = Father Radetzky | image = Father Radetzky.jpg | caption = | director = Karl Leiter | producer = | writer = Franz Pollak | narrator = | starring = {{ubl|Karl Forest|Otto Hartmann|Theodor Pištěk}} | music = | editing = | cinematography = Max Nekut | studio = Sascha-Film | distributor = | released = {{Film date|1929|09|13|df=yes}} | runtime = | country = Austria | language = Silent <br> German intertitles | budget = | gross = }} '''''Father Radetzky''''' (German: '''''Vater Radetzky''''') is a 1929 Austrian war film directed by Karl Leiter and starring Karl Forest, Otto Hartmann and Theodor Pištěk. It is a biopic of the nineteenth century Austrian soldier Joseph Radetzky von Radetz.<ref>Holmes & Silverman p.152</ref> It was made by Sascha-Film in Vienna and was released on 13 September 1929. The film's sets were designed by the art director Emil Stepanek.

==Cast== * Karl Forest as Feldmarschall Radetzky * Otto Hartmann as Lorenz Hauser * Theodor Pištěk as Leonhard Planinger * Iris Arlan as Annerl, seine Tochter * Ágnes Esterházy as Itala Fassotti * Joseph Sneyden as Mario Gallone * Vilma Astay as Metternich * Grete Natzler * Annie Rosar

==References== <references/>

==Bibliography== * Holmes, Deborah & Silverman, Lisa. ''Interwar Vienna: culture between tradition and modernity''. Camden House, 2009.

==External links== *{{IMDb title|0020544}}

Category:1929 films Category:1920s Austrian films Category:Austrian silent feature films Category:Austrian biographical films Category:Austrian war films Category:Austrian historical films Category:1929 war films Category:1929 historical films Category:Films set in the 19th century Category:1929 biographical films Category:Films set in the Austrian Empire Category:Silent war films Category:1929 German-language films