The Green Manuela

The Green Manuela (German: Die grüne Manuela) is a 1923 German silent drama film directed by Ewald André Dupont and starring Lucie Labass, Josef Winter and Grete Berger. The film is based on a novel by Clara Ratzka. A gypsy dancer becomes involved with some smugglers in Spain. The film's plot bears a number of similarities to Carmen.^[1] It was the first time Dupont worked with the cinematographer Werner Brandes and the art director Alfred Junge who were to become important collaborators with him.^[2] The poster of this movie is seen in Russian director Dziga Vertov's movie Man with a Movie Camera (1929) playing at a theater named the Proletarian. It's a symbol of Vertov's disdain of Western fanciful films.

• Lucie Labass as Manuela
• Josef Winter as Carlos Llorrente
• Grete Berger as Frau Gazul
• Kálmán Zátony as Juan Llorrente
• Angelo Ferrari as Count Henri d'Amirón
• Arthur Bergen as Pedro
• Lydia Potechina as Leocadia Barboza
• Louis Ralph as Alfredo
• Geo Bergal as Vincente Delano
• Franz Groß as Old Man Llorrente
• Ari Anzo as Tonia Llorrente
• William Dieterle as Brito
• Giorgio De Giorgetti as Sergeant

• Bergfelder, Tim & Cargnelli, Christian. Destination London: German-speaking emigrés and British cinema, 1925-1950. Berghahn Books, 2008.

• The Green Manuela at IMDb