World by the Throat (German: Der Würger der Welt) is a 1920 German silent crime film directed by E. A. Dupont and starring Max Landa, Hanni Weisse and Ernst Rückert.[1]
| World by the Throat | |
|---|---|
| German | Der Würger der Welt |
| Directed by | E. A. Dupont |
| Written by | E. A. Dupont Guido Kreutzer |
| Starring | Max Landa Hanni Weisse Ernst Rückert |
| Cinematography | Charles Paulus |
Production company | Stern-Film |
Release date |
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| Country | Germany |
| Languages | Silent German intertitles |
The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert A. Dietrich.
Cast edit
- Max Landa as detective
- Hanni Weisse as Sonja
- Leo Connard as Professor Georg Melville
- Ernst Rückert as Mc Lean, his Assistant
- Rosa Liechtenstein as Eugenie, his daughter
- Arthur Bergen as Iwan Nedela, A Russian student
- Edmund Löwe as Boris Alschkin, a nihilist
- Leopold von Ledebur as Algernon Selkirk, the American sugar mogul
- Erich Waldow as Barnes, mate of the detective
References edit
- ^ Grange, William (2008). Cultural Chronicle of the Weimar Republic. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. p. 57. ISBN 081085967X. LCCN 2008008116.
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