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The Iron King (1923 film)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ65045005 ↗
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The Iron King (German: Der Eisenkönig) is a 1923 Austrian silent film directed by Max Neufeld and starring Siegmund Breitbart, Eugen Neufeld and Georg Kundert.

Cast

Siegmund Breitbart

Eugen Neufeld as Sherriff, ein Gladiator

Georg Kundert as Vater Breitbart, Schmied

Karl Ehmann as Varieteedirektor

Hanns Marschall as Pierrot

Mizzi Griebl as Frau des Zirkusdirektors

Ossi Breitbart as Prinz

Manja Keller as Mutter Breitbart

References

Bibliography

Elisabeth Büttner & Christian Dewald. Das tägliche Brennen: eine Geschichte des österreichischen Films von den Anfängen bis 1945, Volume 1. Residenz, 2002.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Iron King (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.