Plots(1)
While roaming around a poor neighbourhood, wealthy heir Christian Wahnschaffe rescues a prostitute from the brutality of her pimp brother. At the home of the siblings, he meets Ruth, a caretaker for the poor. Wahnschaffe takes Ruth’s charitable deeds as a model for himself. He burns his money and moves in among the poor. He gives the seriously ill prostitute a valuable pearl necklace that belongs to his mother. After the girl’s death, Ruth ends up with the jewellery. Shortly thereafter, she is murdered and there seems to be an obvious perpetrator. But Christian has his own suspicions. (Berlinale)
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Werner Krauss
German Empire
Best movies:
Jealousy (1925)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
Tartuffe (1925)
Conrad Veidt
German Empire
Best movies:
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
Casablanca (1942)
The Hands of Orlac (1924)
Margarete Kupfer
German Empire
Best movies:
Fair People (1930)
Woman in the Moon (1929)
The Congress Dances (1931)
Fritz Feld
German Empire
Best movies:
Barefoot in the Park (1967)
You Gotta Stay Happy (1948)
Hello, Dolly! (1969)
Ernst Pröckl
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The Last Ten Days (1955)
Ernst Dernburg
German Empire
Best movies:
Der große König (1942)
Crown of Thorns (1923)
Preußische Liebesgeschichte (1938)
Ilka Grüning
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Casablanca (1942)
Madame Curie (1943)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
Hella Moja
German Empire