FILM ACTOR TOO REALISTIC

Evening Star, Issue 19858, 5 May 1928, Page 10

FILM ACTOR TOO REALISTIC

*• KO ONE LOVES ME” Ficturegoers who have had their blood chilled by the sinister performance of the German submarine commander in Hex Ingram’s fine photoplay ‘Mare Nostrum,’ says the ‘Daily Express,’ will be interested to learn that the production has been not only permanently banned in Germany, but that the actor in question, Andrews Engelmann, has been boycotted by all German film companies Mr Engelmann, who has just completed a part in E. A. Dupont’s first British film, ‘Moulin Rouge,’ called on the ‘ Daily Express' and was amused rather than other aby tho fact that bis film career , . Germany had ended. “ I am not a German,” he explained, “ but Russian, and I am merely an actor with no political feelings worth mentioning, but in Germany I have been branded as an enemy of that country, and in other countries, such as America and France, it is firmly believed that I am a, German naval renegade. No one love? me, but I do no more than study ray part and the general equipment of a German submarine commander. ‘‘ln Germany I have plgyed many parts, from Russian ■ coqnfc to Arab chieftain, but my submarine exploits were found to be too realistic. “ Even Fita tlie Austrian who produced * Metropolis,’ a broad-minded man, advised me to clear out of Germany for at least twelve months, and it has even been suggested that I should change my name and start afresh.” Mr Ingram, who cast Mr Engelmann for the submarine role, said that these international complications had been his greatest difficulty in film-making, and that, after the production of ‘Mare Nostrum’ he had been the subGerman espionage for a long