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The Black Hussar is a film of genre Drama directed by Gerhard Lamprecht released in USA on 20 december 1932 with Conrad Veidt
The Black Hussar (1932)
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Add to a movie listDer schwarze Husar (English: The Black Hussar) is a 1932 German historical drama film directed by Gerhard Lamprecht and starring Bernhard Goetzke, Conrad Veidt, Mady Christians, and Wolf Albach-Retty. It premièred at the Ufa-Palast am Zoo on 12 October 1932, then part of a whole string of 'patriotic' movies released in the late days of the Weimar Republic.
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In 1812, during the French period, large parts of Germany are occupied by the troops of Napoleon. Several paramilitary Freikorps units battle the French forces, among them the Black Brunswickers led by the 'Black Duke' Frederick William of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. After the War of the Fifth Coalition, the Black Hussars are pursued by Napoleon throughout the country, but frequently take refuge with the noble-minded German people.Actors
Conrad Veidt
(Captain Hansgeorg von Hochberg)
Mady Christians
(Marie Luise)
Ursula Grabley
(Brigitte)
Bernhard Goetzke
(Duke Friedrich Wilhelm von Braunschweig)
Otto Wallburg
(Le Gouverneur Darmont)
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