High Treason
Gerda Maurus in the film
Directed by	Johannes Meyer
Written by	Wenzel Goldbaum (play) Alexander Alexander Friedrich Raff
Produced by	Alfred Zeisler
Starring	Gerda Maurus Gustav Fröhlich Harry Hardt Olga Engl
Cinematography	Carl Hoffmann Friedrich Weinmann
Production company	UFA
Distributed by	UFA
Release date	1 November 1929 (1929-11-01)
Country	Germany
Languages	Silent German intertitles

High Treason (German: Hochverrat) is a 1929 German silent drama film directed by Johannes Meyer and starring Gerda Maurus, Gustav Fröhlich and Harry Hardt. The film is set in pre-Revolution Russia. Maurus' performance was contrasted favourably with her appearance in Fritz Lang's Woman in the Moon by the magazine Film und Volk.^[1] The film's art direction was by Willi Herrmann.

• Gerda Maurus as Vera
• Gustav Fröhlich as Wassil Gurmai
• Harry Hardt as Fürst Iwan Stolin
• Olga Engl as Fürstin Stolin seine Mutter
• Leopold von Ledebur as Grossfürst Kyrill, der Governeur
• Rudolf Biebrach as Oberst Petroff
• Ossip Darmatow as Graf Starschenski
• Félix de Pomés as Nimirski
• Harry Frank as Pawel

• Kreimeier, Klaus. The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918-1945. University of California Press, 1999.

• High Treason at IMDb