Misled Youth

Misled Youth (German: Verirrte Jugend) or Youth Gone Astray is a 1929 German silent drama film directed by Richard Löwenbein and starring Fritz Alberti, Erna Morena, and Dolly Davis. It was one of a number of enlightenment films [de] during the Weimar Era that addressed the issue of juvenile delinquency.^[1] The film's art direction was by Hans Jacoby.

Cast

Fritz Alberti as van Straaten
Erna Morena as Norma, seine Frau
Dolly Davis as Hilde, die Tochter
Otto Reinwald as Georg, der Sohn
Magnus Stifter as von Holstein, Kommandant der Kadettenschule
Eva Speyer as Maria von Holstein, seine Frau
Rolf von Goth as Kurt, der Sohn
Hanni Reinwald as Trude, die Tochter
Vera Baranovskaya as Witwe Kröger
Martin Herzberg as Helmut, ihr Sohn
El' Dura as Nigo, Mulattenmädchen
Raimondo Van Riel as Der 'Bananenpeter'
Adele Sandrock as Rosa, seine Frau
Frydell as Der 'dicke Julius'
Molly Stengrit as Die 'dicke Berta'
Heinrich Schroth as Kriminalkommissar
Ferdinand Bonn as Professor im Gymnasium

References

^ Prawer, p. 86.

Bibliography

Prawer, Siegbert Salomon (2005). Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910–1933. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-84545-074-8.

External links

Misled Youth at IMDb