Wandering Souls

Wandering Souls
Directed by	Carl Froelich
Written by	Fyodor Dostoyevsky (novel) Walter Supper Carl Froelich
Produced by	Erich Pommer
Starring	Asta Nielsen Alfred Abel Walter Janssen Guido Herzfeld
Cinematography	Axel Graatkjær
Production company	Russo Film
Distributed by	Decla-Bioscop
Release date	3 March 1921
Running time	123 minutes
Country	Germany
Languages	Silent German intertitles

Wandering Souls (German: Irrende Seelen) is a 1921 German silent drama film directed by Carl Froelich and starring Asta Nielsen, Alfred Abel, and Walter Janssen. It was based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 1869 novel The Idiot. The film was the first of three to be made by Russo Film, a small production company set up by Decla-Bioscop to make literary adaptations. The 123-minute film was shot at the Johannisthal Studios in Berlin. It premiered on 3 March 1921 at the Marmorhaus in Berlin.

Cast

• Asta Nielsen as Nastassja Baraschkowa
• Alfred Abel as Parfen, Rogoschins Sohn
• Walter Janssen as Prinz Myschkin
• Guido Herzfeld as Semjon Rogoschin
• Lyda Salmonova as Tochter Aglaia Jepantschin
• Maria Connard as Gawrils Mutter Nina Alexandrowna
• Lili Donecker as Marie
• Eugenia Eduardova as Solotänzerin
• Leonhard Haskel as General Jepantschin
• Simon Konarski as Eugen Ratomsky
• Adolf E. Licho as Herr Lebedoff
• Lydia Potechina as Alte Gutsbesitzerin
• Auguste Prasch-Grevenberg as Frau Rogoschin
• Frida Richard as Maries Mutter
• Ernst Rotmund as Gawril Iwolgin-Ganja
• Lydia Savitzky as Tochter Adelaida Jepantschin
• Erika Unruh as Gawrils Schwester Warwara
• Marga von Kierska as Tochter Alexandra Jepantschin
• Vasilij Vronski as Trotzky
• Elsa Wagner as Frau Jepantschin
• Sylvia Torf

Bibliography

• Hardt, Ursula. From Caligari to California: Erich Pommer's life in the International Film Wars. Berghahn Books, 1996.

External links

• Wandering Souls at IMDb
• Danish Filme Institute