The Case of Sergeant Grischa (1930)
1h 31m
Running Time
February 23, 1930Release Date
The Case of Sergeant Grischa (1930)
1h 31m
Running Time
February 23, 1930Release Date
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Plot.
This film earned an Oscar nomination for Sound Recording. It is the only film nominated in this category that is among the lost. No negative or print material is known to have survived. Contemporary reviews were scathing, describing the film as a vastly overlong and boring talk-fest.
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Cast & Crew.
Chester Morris
Sergeant Grischa Paprotkin
Betty Compson
Babka
Jean Hersholt
Posnanski
Alec B. Francis
General von Lychow
Gustav von Seyffertitz
Geneneral Schieffenzahn
Leyland Hodgson
Lieutenant Winfried (as Layland Hodgson)
Herbert Brenon
Director
Arnold Zweig
Writer
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Wiki.
The Case of Sergeant Grischa is a 1930 American pre-Code drama film directed by Herbert Brenon, based on the German novel of the same name by Arnold Zweig. John Tribby was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Sound Recording. No known copy of this film exists and is considered lost, the only sound film to have been nominated for an Oscar and subsequently suffered this fate.