The Iron Cross

{{short description|1914 film directed by Richard Oswald}} {{other uses of|Iron Cross}} {{Infobox film |name = The Iron Cross |image = |caption = |native_name = {{Infobox name module|de|Das eiserne Kreuz}} |director = Richard Oswald |producer = {{ubl|Paul Davidson|Jules Greenbaum}} |writer = Richard Oswald |starring = {{ubl|Friedrich Kühne|Hedda Vernon|Hanni Weisse}} |studio = Vitascope Film |distributor = PAGU |released = {{Film date|1914}} |runtime = |country = Germany |language = Silent<br>German intertitles }} '''''The Iron Cross''''' ({{langx|de|'''Das eiserne Kreuz'''}}) is a 1914 German silent film directed by Richard Oswald and starring Friedrich Kühne, Hedda Vernon, and Hanni Weisse. It marked the directorial debut of Oswald.<ref>{{cite book|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|page=351|isbn=978-1571816559|jstor=j.ctt1x76dm6|last1=Hake |first1=Sabine |doi=10.2307/j.ctt1x76dm6 }}</ref>

It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios.

Despite its patriotic name, the film was seized by the German authorities and all its copies were destroyed due to the film's pacifist nature.<ref>{{cite book|title=Germany, Propaganda and Total War, 1914-1918|last=Welch|first=David|author-link=David Welch (historian)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j_0od97nsRcC&dq=Das+eiserne+Kreuz+film&pg=PA147|publisher=Rutgers University Press|year=2000|page=147|isbn=0813527988}}</ref>

==Cast== *Friedrich Kühne *Hedda Vernon *Hanni Weisse *Felix Basch *Erwin Fichtner

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *{{IMDb title|0133732}}

{{Richard Oswald}}

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