The Saint and Her Fool (German: Die Heilige und ihr Narr) is a 1928 German silent drama film directed by William Dieterle and starring Dieterle, Lien Deyers and Gina Manès. It was based on a novel by Agnes Günther and premiered at the Capital am Zoo in Berlin.Kreimeier p.115 Art direction was by Andrej Andrejew. For a long time, the movie was considered lost. Although never released in the US, a nitrate copy was discovered in Jack Warner's personal vault. In 2008 it was given to the UCLA in Los Angeles and restored.
It was remade twice into a 1935 German film directed by Hans Deppe, music by Franz R. Friedl and a 1957 Austrian film directed by Gustav Ucicky.
Cast William Dieterle as Harro, Graf von Torstein Lien Deyers as Rosemarie von Brauneck Gina Manès as Fürstin von Brauneck Félix P. Soler as Fürst von Brauneck Camilla von Hollay as Fräulein Braun Mathilde Sussin as Frau von Hardenstein Heinrich Gotho as Märt Sophie Pagay as Tante Uli Auguste Prasch-Grevenberg as Tante Marga Hanni Reinwald as Lisa, Rosemaries Zofe Loni Nest as Rosemarie als Kind
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Bibliography Kreimeier, Klaus. The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918-1945. University of California Press, 1999.
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