Trivia

The director Max Reichmann began his cinematical career as a production manager where he worked among others for the director Ewald André Dupont.

L'apprenti sorcier was a short movie (9 minutes and 20 seconds) based on a Johann Wolfgang von Goethe poem/ballad in fourteen stanzas. Choreographer and dancer Jean Weidt played the leading role of the The Sorcerer's Apprentice.

His last movies came at the beginning of the 30s into being with the huge success "Das Land des Lächelns" (1930) and "Die grosse Attraktion" (1931).

As a Jew Max Reichmann had to leave Germany and he lived in France for a brief time. There he shot the movies "Camp volant" (1932) and "L'apprenti sorcier" (1933). Afterwards he emigrated to the USA where he was not able to continue his film career.

After graduating to directing, he directed the tenor Richard Tauber in several films following the introduction of sound in the late 1920s.