''A Woman's Revenge'' (German: ''Die Rache einer Frau'') is a 1921
German
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silent drama film
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directed by
Robert Wiene and starring
Vera Karalli
Vera Alexeyevna Karalli (russian: Вера Алексеевна Каралли; 27 July 1889 – 16 November 1972) was a Russian ballet dancer, choreographer and silent film actress during the early years of the 20th century.
Early life and ca ...
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Franz Egenieff and
Olga Engl
Olga Engl (30 May 1871 – 21 September 1946) was an Austrian-German stage and motion picture actress who appeared in nearly 200 films.
Biography
Engl was privately educated in an Ursuline monastery and began her acting career at the Prague C ...
. In order to punish her cold, brutal aristocratic husband for murdering her lover, a woman becomes a common prostitute to shame him. The film received largely negative reviews.
[Jung & Schatzberg p.91-92]
Cast
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Vera Karalli
Vera Alexeyevna Karalli (russian: Вера Алексеевна Каралли; 27 July 1889 – 16 November 1972) was a Russian ballet dancer, choreographer and silent film actress during the early years of the 20th century.
Early life and ca ...
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Franz Egenieff - Herzog von Sierra-Leone
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Olga Engl
Olga Engl (30 May 1871 – 21 September 1946) was an Austrian-German stage and motion picture actress who appeared in nearly 200 films.
Biography
Engl was privately educated in an Ursuline monastery and began her acting career at the Prague C ...
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Margarete Kupfer
Margarete Kupfer (born Margarete Kupferschmid; 10 April 1881 – 11 May 1953) was a German actress.
Partial filmography
* '' The Canned Bride'' (1915)
* '' Frau Eva'' (1916)
* '' The Queen's Secretary'' (1916)
* '' When Four Do the Same'' (1917 ...
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Alfred Haase
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Boris Michailow - Geliebter der Herzogin
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Auguste Prasch-Grevenberg
Auguste Prasch-Grevenberg (22 August 1854 – 14 December 1945) was a German stage and film actress.
She was born in Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany and died in Weimar, Thuringia, Germany in 1945 at age 91.
Selected filmography
* ''The Plague of Fl ...
References
Bibliography
* Jung, Uli & Schatzberg, Walter. ''Beyond Caligari: The Films of Robert Wiene''. Berghahn Books, 1999.
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1921 films
1921 drama films
Silent German drama films
Films of the Weimar Republic
German silent feature films
Films directed by Robert Wiene
Films based on short fiction
Films based on works by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly
German black-and-white films
1920s German films
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