Ride to Freedom

1937 film

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Edmund Strzygowski
Walter Supper
Karl Hartl

Produced byAlfred GrevenStarring

Willy Birgel
Viktor Staal
Hansi Knoteck
Ursula Grabley

Cinematography

Otto Baecker
Günther Rittau

Edited byGertrud Hinz-NischwitzMusic byWolfgang Zeller

Production
company

UFA

Distributed byUFA

Release date

14 January 1937 (1937-01-14)

Running time

92 minutesCountryGermanyLanguageGerman

Ride to Freedom (German: Ritt in die Freiheit) is a 1937 German historical war film directed by Karl Hartl and starring Willy Birgel, Viktor Staal and Hansi Knoteck. The film is set in the 1830s during Poland's November Uprising against the Russian Empire. It portrays the rehabilitation of a Polish cavalry officer whose initial reluctance to engage the enemy leads to the death of his comrades, but later dies fighting bravely.

The film was made by German's leading studio UFA, with interiors shot at the Babelsberg Studios. UFA received co-operation from the Polish War Ministry who supplied 5th Regiment of Zaslaw Uhlans for the filming of battles scenes that took place around Ostroleka in Poland. The Polish ambassador to Germany Józef Lipski attended the film's premiere at the Palast-am-Zoo in Berlin on 14 January 1937. Around the same time Germany and Poland, future enemies in the Second World War, co-produced two films together Augustus the Strong and Adventure in Warsaw.^[1]

Cast

Willy Birgel as Julek Staniewski
Viktor Staal as Jan Wolski
Hansi Knoteck as Janka Koslowska
Ursula Grabley as Katerina Tschernikoff
Heinz von Cleve as Saganoff
Berthold Ebbecke as Malinowski
Werner Schott as Bobrikoff
Edwin Jürgensen as Fürst Tschernikoff
Hermann Braun as Milewski - polnischer Fähnrich
Hans Reinhard Knitsch as Smirnoff - russischer Fähnrich
Rudolf Schündler as Polnischer Student
Aribert Grimmer as Polnischer Wachtmeister
Clemens Hasse as Betrunkener Fährmann
Peter Elsholtz as Adjutant des Gouverneurs
Horst Birr as Krupka
Charlie Kracker as Hässlicher Ulan
Lidija Daurdina as Gouvernante
Werner Bernhardy as Major
Curt Cappi as Diener des Rittmeisters Staniewski
Hermann Hardy as Erzieher des Prinzen
Gustav Mahncke as Unparteiischer beim Duell
Dagmar Muthardt as Junges Mädchen beim Ball
Siegmar Schneider as Großfürst
Louise von Krogh as Begleiterin des Gouverneurs beim Ball
Michael von Newlinsky as Russischer Offizier beim Ball
Kurt Daehn

References

^ Kreimeier p. 283

Bibliography

Kreimeier, Klaus (1999). The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918–1945. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-22069-0.