Good-for-Nothing

For articles with similar names, see Good for Nothing (disambiguation).

Good-for-Nothing
Original titleDer Taugenichts
Directed byCarl Froelich
Written by
Based onMemoirs of a Good-for-Nothing
by Joseph von Eichendorff
Produced byErich Pommer
Starring
CinematographyVilmos Fényes
Production
company
Carl Froelich-Film
Distributed byUFA
Release date
  • 1 September 1922 (1922-09-01) (Berlin)
CountryGermany
LanguagesSilent
German intertitles

Good-for-Nothing (German: Der Taugenichts. Eine Geschichte von der schönen blauen Donau) is a 1922 German silent film directed by Carl Froelich based on the novella by Joseph von Eichendorff.[1][2] and starring Erhard Siedel, Julia Serda and Valerie von Martens.[3] e It premiered on 1 September 1922 at the UT Kurfürstendamm [de] in Berlin.[3]

  1. ^ The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema, ed. Hans-Michael Bock and Tim Bergfelder, Film Europa 1, New York/Oxford: Berghahn, 2009, ISBN 9781571816559, p. 138.
  2. ^ Wolfgang Jacobsen, G.W. Pabst, Argon, 1997, ISBN 9783870243654, p. 286. (in German).
  3. ^ a b Ursula Hardt, From Caligari to California: Erich Pommer's Life in the International Film Wars, Providence, Rhode Island: Berghahn, 1996, ISBN 9781571819307, p. 227.