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1921 film

Wandering Souls

Directed by	Carl Froelich
Written by	Walter Supper Carl Froelich
Based on	The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Produced by	Erich Pommer
Starring	Asta Nielsen Alfred Abel Walter Janssen Guido Herzfeld
Cinematography	Axel Graatkjær
Production company	Russo Film
Distributed by	Decla-Bioscop
Release date	3 March 1921 (1921-03-03)
Running time	123 minutes
Country	Germany
Languages	Silent German intertitles

Wandering Souls (German: Irrende Seelen) is a 1921 German silent drama film directed by Carl Froelich and starring Asta Nielsen, Alfred Abel, and Walter Janssen. It was based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 1869 novel The Idiot. The film was the first of three to be made by Russo Film, a small production company set up by Decla-Bioscop to make literary adaptations. The 123-minute film was shot at the Johannisthal Studios in Berlin. It premiered on 3 March 1921 at the Marmorhaus in Berlin.

Cast

Asta Nielsen as Nastassja Baraschkowa
Alfred Abel as Parfen, Rogoschins Sohn
Walter Janssen as Prinz Myschkin
Guido Herzfeld as Semjon Rogoschin
Lyda Salmonova as Tochter Aglaia Jepantschin
Maria Connard as Gawrils Mutter Nina Alexandrowna
Lili Donecker as Marie
Eugenia Eduardova as Solotänzerin
Leonhard Haskel as General Jepantschin
Simon Konarski as Eugen Ratomsky
Adolf E. Licho as Herr Lebedoff
Lydia Potechina as Alte Gutsbesitzerin
Auguste Prasch-Grevenberg as Frau Rogoschin
Frida Richard as Maries Mutter
Ernst Rotmund as Gawril Iwolgin-Ganja
Lydia Savitzky as Tochter Adelaida Jepantschin
Erika Unruh as Gawrils Schwester Warwara
Marga von Kierska as Tochter Alexandra Jepantschin
Vasilij Vronski as Trotzky
Elsa Wagner as Frau Jepantschin
Sylvia Torf

References

Hardt pp. 52-53
Hardt p. 223

Bibliography

Hardt, Ursula. From Caligari to California: Erich Pommer's life in the International Film Wars. Berghahn Books, 1996.

External links

v t e Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Idiot (1869)
Characters	Prince Myshkin Nastasya Filippovna
Films	Wandering Souls (1921) The Idiot (1946) The Idiot (1951) The Idiot (1958) L'Amour braque (1985) Idiot (1992) The Idiot Returns (1999) Down House (2001) The Idiot (2011)
Television	The Idiot (2003)
Opera	The Idiot (1985) Der Idiot (1986/87)

v t e Films directed by Carl Froelich
Werner Krafft (1916) Ikarus, the Flying Man (1918) The Destiny of Carola van Geldern (1919) The Loves of Käthe Keller (1919) The Dancer (1919) In Thrall to the Claw (1921) Wandering Souls (1921) The Kwannon of Okadera (1921) Island of the Dead (1921) The Brothers Karamazov (1921) Good-for-Nothing (1922) Luise Millerin (1922) Hallig Hooge (1923) The Weather Station (1923) Mother and Child (1924) The Adventures of Sybil Brent (1925) Chamber Music (1925) Tragedy (1925) The Flames Lie (1926) Roses from the South (1926) When She Starts, Look Out (1926) The Long Intermission (1927) My Aunt, Your Aunt (1927) Love in the Cowshed (1928) Lotte (1928) Love and Thieves (1928) Escape (1928) Violantha (1928) The Night Belongs to Us (1929) German Wine (1929) The Woman Everyone Loves Is You (1929) Hans in Every Street (1930) Fire in the Opera House (1930) The Night Is Ours (1930) Louise, Queen of Prussia (1931) Mädchen in Uniform (1931) This One or None (1932) Gitta Discovers Her Heart (1932) Love at First Sight (1932) The Hymn of Leuthen (1933) Ripening Youth (1933) Trouble with Jolanthe (1934) Sergeant Schwenke (1935) I Was Jack Mortimer (1935) The Private Life of Louis XIV (1935) The Dreamer (1936) When the Cock Crows (1936) If We All Were Angels (1936) Such Great Foolishness (1937) Heimat (1938) The Roundabouts of Handsome Karl (1938) The Four Companions (1938) The Life and Loves of Tschaikovsky (1939) The Gasman (1941) Wedding in Barenhof (1942) The Buchholz Family (1944) Marriage of Affection (1944) Three Girls Spinning (1950) Stips (1951)

Films directed by Carl Froelich

Werner Krafft (1916)
Ikarus, the Flying Man (1918)
The Destiny of Carola van Geldern (1919)
The Loves of Käthe Keller (1919)
The Dancer (1919)
In Thrall to the Claw (1921)
Wandering Souls (1921)
The Kwannon of Okadera (1921)
Island of the Dead (1921)
The Brothers Karamazov (1921)
Good-for-Nothing (1922)
Luise Millerin (1922)
Hallig Hooge (1923)
The Weather Station (1923)
Mother and Child (1924)
The Adventures of Sybil Brent (1925)
Chamber Music (1925)
Tragedy (1925)
The Flames Lie (1926)
Roses from the South (1926)
When She Starts, Look Out (1926)
The Long Intermission (1927)
My Aunt, Your Aunt (1927)
Love in the Cowshed (1928)
Lotte (1928)
Love and Thieves (1928)
Escape (1928)
Violantha (1928)
The Night Belongs to Us (1929)
German Wine (1929)
The Woman Everyone Loves Is You (1929)
Hans in Every Street (1930)
Fire in the Opera House (1930)
The Night Is Ours (1930)
Louise, Queen of Prussia (1931)
Mädchen in Uniform (1931)
This One or None (1932)
Gitta Discovers Her Heart (1932)
Love at First Sight (1932)
The Hymn of Leuthen (1933)
Ripening Youth (1933)
Trouble with Jolanthe (1934)
Sergeant Schwenke (1935)
I Was Jack Mortimer (1935)
The Private Life of Louis XIV (1935)
The Dreamer (1936)
When the Cock Crows (1936)
If We All Were Angels (1936)
Such Great Foolishness (1937)
Heimat (1938)
The Roundabouts of Handsome Karl (1938)
The Four Companions (1938)
The Life and Loves of Tschaikovsky (1939)
The Gasman (1941)
Wedding in Barenhof (1942)
The Buchholz Family (1944)
Marriage of Affection (1944)
Three Girls Spinning (1950)
Stips (1951)

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