Revolt in the Reformatory () is a 1929 German silent drama film directed by Georg Asagaroff and starring Carl Balhaus, Vera Baranovskaya, Toni van Eyck. The film was based on a play by Peter Martin Lampel intended as an exposé of the youth justice system. The film was considered controversial, and was banned four times before its eventual release.Kreimeier p.192 The film's art direction was by Andrej Andrejew.
Cast Carl Balhaus as Fritz Vera Baranovskaya as Fritz' mother Toni van Eyck as Fritz' sister Wolfgang Zilzer as Hans Peter Wolff as Erwin Julius E. Herrmann as Direktor Hugo Werner-Kahle as Hausvater Renate Müller as Hausvater's daughter Oskar Homolka as Erzieher Rudolf Platte as Erziehungsgehilfe Veit Harlan as Kurt Ilse Stobrawa as Lucie Willy Clever Friedrich Gnaß
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Bibliography Kreimeier, Klaus. The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918-1945. University of California Press, 1999.
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