The Eleven Schill Officers (1926 film)
The Eleven Schill Officers is a 1926 German silent historical film directed by Rudolf Meinert and starring Meinert, Gustav Adolf Semler, Grete Reinwald and Leopold von Ledebur.
The film depicts the failed 1809 uprising of Prussian soldiers led by Ferdinand von Schill against the occupying French during the Napoleonic War.
The film received poor reviews from critics, but earned enough at the box office to offset its production costs.
According to IMDB, it was released in the USA as" Eleven Who Were Loyal" in 1929.
A NY Times review which also covers several other movies of that same date is available online dated from May 20, 1929.
It was part of the cycle of Prussian films.
The film was remade by Meinert as a sound film" The Eleven Schill Officers" in 1932 with Carl de Vogt cast as Schill.
Monique Rolland
Monique Rolland( 1913–1999) was a French film actress.
She appeared in the 1932 film" Narcotics".
The Last Mile (1959 film)
The Last Mile is a 1959 American drama film directed by Howard W. Koch starring Mickey Rooney.
The film is a remake of a 1932 film of the same name starring Preston Foster.
The Eleven Schill Officers (1932 film)
The Eleven Schill Officers is a 1932 German historical film directed by Rudolf Meinert and starring Friedrich Kayßler, Hertha Thiele and Heinz Klingenberg.
It was a remake of a 1926 silent film of the same name which had also been directed by Meinert.
The film depicts the failed 1809 uprising of Prussian soldiers led by Ferdinand von Schill against the occupying French.
It focuses in particular on eleven of Schill's officers who were executed by the French at Wesel.
The film was a Prussian film, part of a wider trend of German historical films made during the Weimar Era and set in the Napoleonic Era.
It was shot at the Johannisthal Studios in Berlin and on location in Stralsund on the Baltic.
Rudolf Meinert
Rudolf Meinert (1882–1945) was an Austrian screenwriter, film producer and director.
Meinert was born Rudolf Bürstein in Vienna, but worked for most of his career in the German film industry.
He became well-established as the producer/director of silent crime films.
In the immediate post-First World War period, Meinert was head of production at the German studio Decla after his own production unit Meinert-Film was taken over by the larger outfit.
Meinert, rather than Erich Pommer, is sometimes credited as the producer behind Decla's revolutionary "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" (1920).
Following the Nazi takeover of power in Germany, Meinert, who was Jewish, went into exile in the Netherlands.
The Bantam Cowboy
The Bantam Cowboy is a 1928 American silent western film directed by Louis King and starring Buzz Barton, Frank Rice and Nancy Drexel.
Jack Shea (director)
Jack Shea (August 1, 1928 – April 28, 2013) was an American film and television director.
He was the president of the Directors Guild of America from 1997 to 2002.
Louis King
Louis King( born June 28, 1898, Christiansburg, Virginia – died September 7, 1962) was an American actor and film director of westerns and adventure movies in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.
Mark Lewis (filmmaker)
Mark Lewis( born 1958 in Mullumbimby, Australia) is an Australian documentary film and television producer, director and writer.
He is famous for his film and for his body of work on animals.
Unlike many other producers of nature films, his films do not attempt to document the animals in question or their behaviors but rather the complex relationships between people and society and the animals they interact with.
His films have earned him many awards, including a British Academy Award nomination, a nomination from the Directors Guild of America, two Emmy ’s for Outstanding Direction in documentary film, and an Emmy Award for Outstanding Science Program on American Television.
Carl de Vogt
Carl de Vogt( 14 September 1885 – 16 February 1970) was a German film actor who starred in four of Fritz Lang's early films.
He attended the acting school in Cologne, Germany.
Together with acting he was also active as a singer and recorded several discs.
His greatest hit was" Der Fremdenlegionär".
An extremely successful actor in his early career, he died in relative obscurity in 1970.
In 1919 and 1920, de Vogt starred in director Fritz Lang's two- part" Spiders" films opposite actresses Lil Dagover and Ressel Orla.
In 1932, in the early sound era, he played the Prussian hero Major Schill in the big- budget historical film" The Eleven Schill Officers".
De Vogt was married to the German film actress Cläre Lotto, and the couple had a son Karl Franz de Vogt( born 14 May 1917).
He was a member of the NSDAP and the Sturmabteilung.

Question: Do both The Bantam Cowboy and The Eleven Schill Officers (1932 film) films have the directors from the same country?
Answer: no