Robert A. Dietrich Explained

Robert A. Dietrich (28 March 1889 – 8 September 1947) was a German art director.^[1] He designed the sets for more than a hundred films during his career.

Selected filmography

• The Student of Prague (1913)
• The Path of Death (1917)
• When the Dead Speak (1917)
• The Spies (1919)
• The Secret of the American Docks (1919)
• The Derby (1919)
• World by the Throat (1920)
• The Woman Without a Soul (1920)
• Va banque (1920)
• Hearts are Trumps (1920)
• Nights of Terror (1921)
• Christian Wahnschaffe (1921)
• Murder Without Cause (1921)
• The Nights of Cornelis Brouwer (1921)
• To the Ladies' Paradise (1922)
• Black Monday (1922)
• At the Edge of the Great City (1922)
• Doctor Wislizenus (1924)
• Playing with Destiny (1924)
• Debit and Credit (1924)
• Wallenstein (1925)
• Neptune Bewitched (1925)
• What the Stones Tell (1925)
• A Free People (1925)
• Three Waiting Maids (1925)
• Anne-Liese of Dessau (1925)
• Father Voss (1925)
• Hussar Fever (1925)
• Trude (1926)
• Women of Passion (1926)
• Lives in Danger (1926)
• The Woman's Crusade (1926)
• Excluded from the Public (1927)
• The Standard-Bearer of Sedan (1927)
• The Man with the Counterfeit Money (1927)
• The Woman with the World Record (1927)
• The Case of Prosecutor M (1928)
• Today I Was With Frieda (1928)
• Lux, King of Criminals (1929)
• The Girl from the Provinces (1929)
• The Gypsy Chief (1929)
• The Third Confession (1929)
• Big City Children (1929)
• Marriage in Name Only (1930)
• Shadows of the Underworld (1931)
• The Theft of the Mona Lisa (1931)
• The Other Side (1931)
• Student Life in Merry Springtime (1931)
• Two Good Comrades (1933)
• The Big Chance (1934)
• The Champion of Pontresina (1934)
• The Riders of German East Africa (1934)
• Between Two Hearts (1934)
• Bashful Felix (1934)
• The Four Musketeers (1934)
• Frisians in Peril (1935)
• Miracle of Flight (1935)
• The Coral Princess (1937)
• Meiseken (1937)
• Fools in the Snow (1938)
• The Night of Decision (1938)
• Linen from Ireland (1939)
• Stars of Variety (1939)
• Mistake of the Heart (1939)
• What Does Brigitte Want? (1941)
• The Impostor (1944)

Bibliography

• Dietrich Scheunemann. Expressionist Film: New Perspectives. Camden House, 2006.

Notes and References

1. Scheunemann p.277