---
title: 'The White Devil (1930)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Alexandre Volkoff'
released: '1930-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 110
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'Germany'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-white-devil-1930'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021539/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The White Devil (1930)

1930 · 110 min · Drama · Germany

Original title: Der weiße Teufel

## Synopsis

The White Devil is a 1930 German historical drama film directed by Alexandre Volkoff and starring Ivan Mozzhukhin, Lil Dagover and Betty Amann. It was based on Leo Tolstoy's 1912 novella Hadji Murat. It was originally made as a silent film, with a soundtrack added later. Anatole Litvak worked as the film's assistant director and production manager. It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Alexandre Lochakoff and Vladimir Meingard. After location shooting in Nice, Switzerland and the French Alps during 1929, it premiered at the Ufa-Palast am Zoo in January 1930.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Alexandre Volkoff](https://cinepixo.com/people/alexandre-volkoff)
- **Screenplay:** [Mikhail Linsky](https://cinepixo.com/people/mikhail-linsky)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Michel Michelet](https://cinepixo.com/people/michel-michelet)
- **Producer:** [Gregor Rabinovitch](https://cinepixo.com/people/gregor-rabinovitch)
- **Director of Photography:** [Curt Courant](https://cinepixo.com/people/curt-courant), [Nikolai Toporkoff](https://cinepixo.com/people/nikolai-toporkoff)

## Cast

- [Lil Dagover](https://cinepixo.com/people/lil-dagover)
- [Acho Chakatouny](https://cinepixo.com/people/acho-chakatouny)
- [Rudolf Biebrach](https://cinepixo.com/people/rudolf-biebrach)
- [Fritz Alberti](https://cinepixo.com/people/fritz-alberti)
- [Ivan Mozzhukhin](https://cinepixo.com/people/ivan-mozzhukhin)
- [Peter Lorre](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-lorre)
- [Serge Jaroff](https://cinepixo.com/people/serge-jaroff)
- [Alexander Murski](https://cinepixo.com/people/alexander-murski)
- [Marianne Winkelstern](https://cinepixo.com/people/marianne-winkelstern)
- [Hugo Döblin](https://cinepixo.com/people/hugo-doblin)
- [Harry Hardt](https://cinepixo.com/people/harry-hardt)
- [Lydia Potechina](https://cinepixo.com/people/lydia-potechina)
- [Henry Bender](https://cinepixo.com/people/henry-bender)
- [Betty Amann](https://cinepixo.com/people/betty-amann)

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