# Father Radetzky

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{{short description|1929 film}}
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{{Infobox film
| name           = Father Radetzky
| image          = Father Radetzky.jpg
 
| caption        = 
| director       = [Karl Leiter](/source/Karl_Leiter) 
| producer       = 
| writer         = [Franz Pollak](/source/Franz_Pollak) 
| narrator       = 
| starring       = {{ubl|[Karl Forest](/source/Karl_Forest)|[Otto Hartmann](/source/Otto_Hartmann_(actor))|[Theodor Pištěk](/source/Theodor_Pi%C5%A1t%C4%9Bk_(actor))}}
| music          = 
| editing        =
| cinematography = [Max Nekut](/source/Max_Nekut)
| studio         = [Sascha-Film](/source/Sascha-Film)  
| distributor    = 
| released       = {{Film date|1929|09|13|df=yes}}
| runtime        = 
| country        = Austria
| language       = Silent <br> German [intertitles](/source/intertitles)
| budget         =  
| gross          =
}}
'''''Father Radetzky''''' (German: '''''Vater Radetzky''''') is a 1929 [Austrian](/source/Cinema_of_Austria) [war film](/source/war_film) directed by [Karl Leiter](/source/Karl_Leiter) and starring [Karl Forest](/source/Karl_Forest), [Otto Hartmann](/source/Otto_Hartmann_(actor)) and [Theodor Pištěk](/source/Theodor_Pi%C5%A1t%C4%9Bk_(actor)). It is a [biopic](/source/biopic) of the nineteenth century Austrian soldier [Joseph Radetzky von Radetz](/source/Joseph_Radetzky_von_Radetz).<ref>Holmes & Silverman p.152</ref> It was made by [Sascha-Film](/source/Sascha-Film) in [Vienna](/source/Vienna) and was released on 13 September 1929. The film's sets were designed by the [art director](/source/art_director) [Emil Stepanek](/source/Emil_Stepanek).

==Cast==
* [Karl Forest](/source/Karl_Forest) as Feldmarschall Radetzky
* [Otto Hartmann](/source/Otto_Hartmann_(actor)) as Lorenz Hauser
* [Theodor Pištěk](/source/Theodor_Pi%C5%A1t%C4%9Bk_(actor)) as Leonhard Planinger
* Iris Arlan as Annerl, seine Tochter
* [Ágnes Esterházy](/source/%C3%81gnes_Esterh%C3%A1zy) as Itala Fassotti
* Joseph Sneyden as Mario Gallone
* Vilma Astay as Metternich
* [Grete Natzler](/source/Grete_Natzler) 
* [Annie Rosar](/source/Annie_Rosar)

==References==
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==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

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