The Castle in Flanders

{{Short description|1936 film}} {{use dmy dates|date=February 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = The Castle in Flanders | image = The Castle in Flanders.jpg | caption = | director = [[Géza von Bolváry]] | producer = | writer = [[Curt J. Braun]] | narrator = | starring = {{ubl|[[Mártha Eggerth]]|[[Paul Hartmann (actor)|Paul Hartmann]]|[[Georg Alexander]]}} | music = [[Franz Grothe]] | cinematography = [[Werner Brandes]] | editing = [[Hermann Haller (film editor)|Hermann Haller]] | studio = [[Tobis Film]] | distributor = Tobis Film | released = {{Film date|1936|8|14|df=y}} | runtime = 93 minutes | country = Germany | language = [[German language|German]] | budget = | gross = }} '''''The Castle in Flanders''''' ({{langx|de|'''Das Schloß in Flandern'''}}) is a 1936 German [[drama film]] directed by [[Géza von Bolváry]] and starring [[Mártha Eggerth]], [[Paul Hartmann (actor)|Paul Hartmann]], and [[Georg Alexander]].{{sfn|Bock|Bergfelder|p=51}} It was shot at the [[Johannisthal Studios]] in [[Berlin]]. The film's sets were designed by the [[art director]]s [[Emil Hasler]] and [[Arthur Schwarz]].

==Cast== {{cast listing| * [[Mártha Eggerth]] as Gloria Delamare * [[Paul Hartmann (actor)|Paul Hartmann]] as Fred Winsbury * [[Georg Alexander]] as Bob Harrogate * [[Hilde Weissner]] as Lady Margaret * [[Valy Arnheim]] as Gaspard, Kastellan * [[Eduard Bornträger]] * [[Gerhard Dammann]] as Polizist * [[Peter Elsholtz]] as Lincoln * [[Edwin Jürgensen]] as Sir Ramsey * [[Rudolf Klicks]] as Piccolo * [[Gerti Kraus]] * [[Else Lüders]] * [[Rio Nobile]] as Clifton * [[Irmgard Novac]] * [[Gerti Ober]] * [[Paul Otto]] as Sir Archibald Winsbury * [[Sabine Peters]] as Anne, Zofe bei Gloria * [[Willi Schaeffers]] as Gast * [[Georg H. Schnell]] as Regiments-Adjutant * [[Kurt Seifert]] as Hotelportier * [[Valeska Stock]] * [[Alfred Stratmann]] * [[Toni Tetzlaff]] * [[Rolf von Goth]] as Brigg * [[Jens von Hagen]] as Major Murray * [[Hertha von Walther]] as Baronin * [[Rudolf Vones]] * [[Otto Wernicke]] as Bonnet, Agent }}

==Reception== Writing for ''[[Night and Day (magazine)|Night and Day]]'' in 1937, [[Graham Greene]] gave the film a mixed review. Greene noted that the film's depictions of England and English culture were rather off the mark, but despite this he claimed that "th[e] picture has merits" and that "there are excellent scenes" which he identified as the scenes in Ypres after the war had ended and Gloria Delamare (Eggerth) attempts to book a hotel room only to be moved by a porter to the neighboring castle. Greene points to the return of Fred Winsbury (Hartmann) as the point in the film where the audience loses interest and the film loses reality.<ref>{{cite journal |last= Greene|first= Graham|author-link= Graham Greene|date= 2 September 1937|title= A Castle in Flanders/For You Alone|journal= [[Night and Day (magazine)|Night and Day]]}} (reprinted in: {{cite book |editor-last= Taylor|editor-first= John Russell |editor-link= John Russell Taylor|date= 1980|title= The Pleasure Dome|publisher= Oxford University Press|page= 165|isbn=0192812866}})</ref>

== References == {{reflist}}

== Bibliography == * {{cite book | ref = {{harvid|Bock|Bergfelder}} | editor-first1 = Hans-Michael | editor-last1 = Bock | editor-link1 = Hans-Michael Bock | editor-first2 = Tim | editor-last2 = Bergfelder | title = The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema | publisher = Berghahn Books | year = 2009 | location = New York | isbn = 978-1-57181-655-9 }}

== External links == * {{IMDb title|0028224}}

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