Veritas Vincit (film)

Veritas Vincit
Directed by	Joe May
Written by	Ruth Goetz Richard Hutter Joe May Michelangelo Baron Zois
Produced by	Joe May
Starring	Mia May Johannes Riemann Magnus Stifter
Cinematography	Max Lutze
Music by	Ferdinand Hummel
Production company	May-Film
Distributed by	UFA
Release date	4 April 1919 (1919-04-04)
Running time	127 minutes
Country	Germany
Languages	Silent German intertitles

Veritas Vincit is a 1919 German silent historical film directed by Joe May and starring Mia May, Johannes Riemann, and Magnus Stifter. It was made as an epic in three episodes, similar to D. W. Griffith's Intolerance. The first takes place in Ancient Rome, the second during the Renaissance and the third shortly before the First World War. Although not released until Spring 1919, it had been made during the final months of the war the previous year.

The film's sets were designed by the art directors Paul Leni and Siegfried Wroblewsky. It was shot at the Weissensee Studios in Berlin and on location around the city.

Cast

• Mia May as Helena / Ellinor / Komtessa Helene
• Johannes Riemann as Lucfius / Ritter Lutz von Ehrenfried / Prinz Ludwig
• Magnus Stifter as Decius
• Emil Albes as Flavius
• Wilhelm Diegelmann as Tullulus
• Ferry Sikla as Fucius Asinius
• Paul Biensfeldt as Digulus
• Georg John as Blinder Senator
• Leopold Bauer as Meister Heinrich, der Goldschmied
• Lina Paulsen as Ursula
• Friedrich Kühne as Florian
• Bernhard Goetzke as Inder
• Adolf Klein as Fürst
• Olga Engl as Fürstin
• Joseph Klein as General von der Tanne
• Max Laurence as Untersuchungsrichter
• Anders Wikman as Vicomte Rene de Montmorte
• Hermann Picha as Zauberin
• Emmy Wyda
• Maria Forescu
• Max Gülstorff as Wilddieb

Bibliography

• Hake, Sabine. German National Cinema. Routledge, 2002.
• Kreimeier, Klaus. The UFA Story: A Story of Germany's Greatest Film Company 1918-1945. University of California Press, 1999.

External links

• Veritas Vincit at IMDb