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The Last Battle (1923 film)

1923 film by Harry Piel

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ56277929 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Last Battle (German: Der letzte Kampf) is a 1923 German silent film directed by and starring Harry Piel.

The film's sets were designed by the art director Hermann Warm.

Cast

Harry Piel

Charly Berger

Inge Helgard

Adolf Klein

Karl Platen

References

Bibliography

Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “The Last Battle (1923 film)” is 1923 film by Harry Piel. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Last, Battle and film, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1923, 2009—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1923. For this dossier, Last, Battle and film is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “1923 film by Harry Piel” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q56277929. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1923 and 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Last Battle (1923 film)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.