The Boy in Blue (1919 film)
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The Boy in Blue (German: Der Knabe in Blau and also known as Emerald of Death) is a 1919 silent German drama film directed by F. W. Murnau. It was Murnau's directorial debut. The film is now considered to be a lost film,[1] though the Deutsche Kinemathek film archive possesses 35 small fragments ranging from two to eleven frames in length.[2]
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Directed by | F. W. Murnau |
Written by | Edda Ottershausen |
Produced by | Ernst Hofmann |
Starring | Ernst Hofmann |
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Running time | 54 minutes |
Country | Weimar Republic |
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Thomas Gainsborough's painting The Blue Boy and Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray were inspirations for Murnau to create this film.[3]