Theodor Herzl (film)

Theodor Herzl or Theodor Herzl, Standard-Bearer of the Jewish People (German: Theodor Herzl, der Bannerträger des jüdischen Volkes) is a 1921 Austrian silent drama film directed by Otto Kreisler and starring Ernst Bath, Rudolph Schildkraut and Joseph Schildkraut. It portrays the life of Theodor Herzl, the pioneer of modern Zionism.^[1]

• Ernst Bath as Theodor Herzl
• Rudolph Schildkraut as Das ringende Israel
• Joseph Schildkraut as Das leidende Israel
• Josef Schreiter as Prophet
• Rudolf Dietz as Dr. Samuel Goldblatt
• Else Osterheim as eine junge russische Jüdin
• Gita Lenart-Vago as eine spanische Jüdin
• Axel Plessen as russischer Gutsbesitzer
• Pippa Gettke as Altjüdische tänzerin
• Heinz Altringen as König von Spanien
• Ludwig Donath as Prinz Eugen
• Eugen Preiß as Pope Leo XIII
• James Battle as Sultan Abdulhamid II

• Baer, Nicholas The Rebirth of a Nation:Cinema, Herzlian Zionism, and Emotion in Jewish History. Leo Baeck Institute Year Book, Vol 59, 2014, pp. 233–248 at Academia.edu
• Dassanowsky, Robert. Austrian Cinema: A History. McFarland & Company Incorporated Publishing, 2005
• George, Alys X. Hollywood on the Danube?: Vienna and Austrian Silent Film of the 1920s, p. 154 in Holmes, Deborah & Silverman, Lisa. Interwar Vienna: Culture Between Tradition and Modernity. Camden House, 2009 at the Internet Archive

• The Wandering Jew: The Life of Theodor Herzl at The Jerusalem Cinematheque's Israel Film Archive
• Theodor Herzl, der Bannerträger des jüdischen Volkes at IMDb

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