The Erl King

A young man races to save his son's life, but death – incarnated in the child's imagination as the titular Erl King – calls unceasingly.

Cast

Joë Hamman

as Le roi des aulnes

Mary Costes

as La fille du maître de poste

Rosa Bertens

as La grand-mère

Otto Gebühr

as Le père

André Michaud

as Le timbalier fantôme

Raymond Lapon

as L'enfant

Albert Broquin

as Crapaud

Louis Merlac

as (as Louis Melrack)

Arlette Porta

as Fée

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