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Youth (1922 film)

1922 film by Fred Sauer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 26, 2025
Entity authorityQ17478936 ↗
Source-derived summary

Youth (German: Jugend) is a 1922 German silent film directed by Fred Sauer and starring Grete Reinwald, Fritz Schulz and Fritz Rasp.

Cast

Grete Reinwald as Anna

Fritz Schulz as Hans Hartwig

Heinz Salfner as Pastor Hoppe

Theodor Loos as Kapellan Schigorski

Ilka Grüning

Fritz Rasp as Amandus

Herbert Stock as Burgermeister Hartwig

Ida Perry as Frau Burgermeister

Alfred Schmasow

Rolf Jäger

Käthe Haack

Jori Sarno

Ernst Pröckl

References

Bibliography

Alfred Krautz. International directory of cinematographers, set- and costume designers in film, Volume 4. Saur, 1984.

Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

Editorial summary

“Youth (1922 film)” enters the record as 1922 film by Fred Sauer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Youth, film and Fred can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1922, 1984, 1999—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1922. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Youth, film and Fred.
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Why this record matters

“Youth (1922 film)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Youth, film and Fred provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 26, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q17478936. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1922, 1984 and 1999.

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This entry incorporates text from “Youth (1922 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.