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| Directed by | F. W. Murnau |
| Written by | Edda Ottershausen |
| Produced by | Ernst Hofmann |
| Starring | Ernst Hofmann |
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Running time | 54 minutes |
| Country | Weimar Republic |
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The Boy in Blue (German: Der Knabe in Blau and also known as Emerald of Death) is a 1919 silent German drama film directed by F. W. Murnau. It was Murnau's directorial debut. The film is now considered to be a lost film,[1] though the Deutsche Kinemathek film archive possesses 35 small fragments ranging from two to eleven frames in length.[2]
Thomas Gainsborough's painting The Blue Boy and Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray were inspirations for Murnau to create this film.[3]
- ^ "Silent Era : Progressive Silent Film List". www.silentera.com. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
- ^ "Der Knabe in Blau". Deutsche Kinemathek. Retrieved 25 March 2013.
- ^ Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. p. 334. ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9.