The Green Manuela

{{short description|1923 film}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = The Green Manuela | image = The Green Manuela.jpg | caption = | director = [[Ewald André Dupont]] | producer = [[Hanns Lippmann]] | writer = {{ubl|[[Clara Ratzka]] (novel)|[[Fritz Podehl]]|[[Imre Frey]]}} | narrator = | starring = {{ubl|[[Lucie Labass]]|[[Josef Winter]]|[[Grete Berger]]|[[Angelo Ferrari]]}} | music = | editing = | cinematography = {{ubl|[[Werner Brandes]]|[[Karl Puth]]}} | studio = [[Gloria-Film]] | distributor = [[Universum Film|UFA]] | released = {{Film date|1923|10|10|df=yes}} | runtime = | country = Germany | language = {{ubl|[[Silent film|Silent]]|[[German language|German]] intertitles}} | budget = | gross = }} '''''The Green Manuela''''' ([[German language|German]]: '''''Die grüne Manuela''''') is a 1923 German [[silent film|silent]] [[drama film]] directed by [[Ewald André Dupont]] and starring [[Lucie Labass]], [[Josef Winter]] and [[Grete Berger]]. The film is based on a novel by [[Clara Ratzka]]. A [[gypsy (term)|gypsy]] dancer becomes involved with some [[smugglers]] in Spain. The film's plot bears a number of similarities to ''[[Carmen]]''.<ref>Bergfelder & Cargnelli p.28</ref> It was the first time Dupont worked with the [[cinematographer]] [[Werner Brandes]] and the [[art director]] [[Alfred Junge]] who were to become important collaborators with him.<ref>Bergfelder & Cargnelli p.28</ref>

The poster<ref name="movingimagesource/fig-20-122321">{{cite web |title=Cinema exterior wall with a mural/poster for the film, 'The Green Manuela', still, Man with a Movie Camera (1929) |url=https://movingimagesource.us/images/articles/fig-20-20110412-122321-large.jpg |access-date=13 December 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110813003645/https://movingimagesource.us/images/articles/fig-20-20110412-122321-large.jpg |archive-date=August 13, 2011}}</ref> of this movie is seen in Russian director [[Dziga Vertov]]'s movie [[Man with a Movie Camera]] (1929) playing at a theater named<ref name="movingimagesource/fig-19-122227">{{cite web |title=The name of the theatre is the 'Proletarian', still, Man with a Movie Camera (1929) |url=http://www.movingimagesource.us/images/articles/fig-19-20110412-122227-large.jpg |access-date=13 December 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251214001446/https://www.movingimagesource.us/images/articles/fig-19-20110412-122227-large.jpg |archive-date=14 December 2025 |url-status=dead }}</ref> the ''[[Proletarian]]'',<ref name="movingimagesource/manifesto">{{cite web |last1=Tsivian |first1=Yuri |title=Celluloid Manifesto |url=https://movingimagesource.us/articles/celluloid-manifesto-20110412 |website=movingimagesource.us |publisher=Moving Image Source |access-date=13 December 2025 |date=April 12, 2011 |quote=The following excerpt is adapted from the introduction to Yuri Tsivian's Lines of Resistance: Dziga Vertov and the Twenties (Pordenone, 2004), reprinted with kind permission of the author.}}</ref><ref name="Tsivian/Vertov-Twenties">{{cite book |last1=Tsivian |first1=Yuri |editor1-last=Tsivian |editor1-first=Yuri |title=Lines of Resistance: Dziga Vertov and the Twenties |date=2004 |publisher=[[Giornate del Cinema Muto]] |location=Sacile, Italy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=np9a1YWLE8YC |language=en |via=[[google books]] preview |quote=with an introduction by Yuri Tsivian; Russian texts translated by Julian Graffy; filmographic and biographical research, Aleksandr Deriabin; co-researchers, Oksana Sarkisova, Sarah Keller, Theresa Scandiffio.}}</ref> symbolizing Vertov's disdain of Western fanciful films.{{cn|date=December 2025}}

==Cast== * [[Lucie Labass]] as Manuela * [[Josef Winter]] as Carlos Llorrente * [[Grete Berger]] as Frau Gazul * [[Kálmán Zátony]] as Juan Llorrente * [[Angelo Ferrari]] as Count Henri d'Amirón * [[Arthur Bergen]] as Pedro * [[Lydia Potechina]] as Leocadia Barboza * [[Louis Ralph]] as Alfredo * [[Geo Bergal]] as Vincente Delano * [[Franz Groß]] as Old Man Llorrente * [[Ari Anzo]] as Tonia Llorrente * [[William Dieterle]] as Brito * [[Giorgio De Giorgetti]] as Sergeant

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Bibliography== * Bergfelder, Tim & Cargnelli, Christian. ''Destination London: German-speaking emigrés and British cinema, 1925-1950''. Berghahn Books, 2008.

==External links== *{{IMDb title|0189566}}

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