24 Dec 1925
Battleship Potemkin
A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing support, which brought on a police massacre.
Madame DuBarry
A Mighty Epoch of the Screen
The story of Madame DuBarry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.
Top Billed Cast
Pola Negri Jeanne Vaubernier - later Madame du Barry
Emil Jannings Ludwig XV.
Harry Liedtke Armand De Foix
Reinhold Schünzel Duke of Choiseul
Eduard von Winterstein Graf Jean du Barry
Else Berna Graefin Gramont
Fred Immler Richelieu
Gustav Czimeg Aiguillon
Karl Platen Guillaume du Barry
Bernhard Goetzke Revolutionär
Magnus Stifter Magnus Stifter Don Diego
Paul Biensfeldt Lebel
Willy Kaiser-Heyl Oberst der Wache
Alexander Ekert Paillet
Robert Sortsch-Pla 
Marga Köhler Madame Labille
Paul Wegener 
Victor Janson Zamor - ein Neger
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