The Legacy of Pretoria

1934 film

The Legacy of Pretoria (German: Das Erbe von Pretoria) is a 1934 German drama film directed by Johannes Meyer and starring Paul Hartmann, Charlotte Susa and Paul Henckels.^[1] It was based on the novel Die Reise nach Pretoria by Ludwig von Wohl. A German man inherits a business in South Africa, but struggles to run it.

It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich. The film's sets were designed by the art director Max Seefelder.

Cast

• Paul Hartmann as Bernhard Fredersen
• Charlotte Susa as Agnes Fredersen
• Paul Henckels as Petermann
• Philipp Manning as Admiral Wiethaus
• Max Weydner as William Spencer
• Gustaf Gründgens as Eugen Schliebach
• Lilo Müller as Ines
• Kurt Vespermann as Hans Joachim Förster
• Walter Lantzsch as Captain Husemann
• Richard Ryen as Georg Miller
• Philipp Veit as Gehelmrat Klinger
• Fita Benkhoff as Lilly Clausen
• Josef Eichheim as Diener Karl

References

1. Bock & Bergfelder p. 193

Bibliography

• Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9.

External links

• The Legacy of Pretoria at IMDb