''Angst'' is a 1928
German
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British
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silent drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super ...
directed by
Hans Steinhoff
Hans Steinhoff (10 March 1882 – 20 April 1945) was a German film director, best known for the propaganda films he made in the Nazi era.
Life and career
Steinhoff started his career as a stage actor in the 1900s and later worked as a stag ...
and starring
Gustav Fröhlich
Gustav Fröhlich (21 March 1902 – 22 December 1987) was a German actor and film director. He landed secondary roles in a number of films and plays before landing his breakthrough role of Freder Fredersen in Fritz Lang's 1927 film ''Metropoli ...
,
Henry Edwards and
Elga Brink
Elisabeth Margarete Biermann (née Brink, born Frey; 2 April 1905 – 28 October 1985), known professionally as Elga Brink, was a German film actress. Brink rose to prominence in the early 1920s, when she starred in many silent films. Her last sil ...
. It is based on the 1925 novella ''
Fear
Fear is an intensely unpleasant emotion in response to perceiving or recognizing a danger or threat. Fear causes physiological changes that may produce behavioral reactions such as mounting an aggressive response or fleeing the threat. Fear ...
'' by
Stefan Zweig. The film was a co-production between Germany and Britain, with the British star Edwards included to give the work greater commercial appeal in the British Isles.
[Bergfelder, Harris, Street p. 127]
Cast
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Gustav Fröhlich
Gustav Fröhlich (21 March 1902 – 22 December 1987) was a German actor and film director. He landed secondary roles in a number of films and plays before landing his breakthrough role of Freder Fredersen in Fritz Lang's 1927 film ''Metropoli ...
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Henry Edwards - Henry Duhan
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Elga Brink
Elisabeth Margarete Biermann (née Brink, born Frey; 2 April 1905 – 28 October 1985), known professionally as Elga Brink, was a German film actress. Brink rose to prominence in the early 1920s, when she starred in many silent films. Her last sil ...
- Inge Duhan
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Bruno Kastner
Richard Otto Bruno Kastner (January 1890Different sources cite 1 January, 3 January, 20 January, and 30 January as Kastner's date of birth. – 30 June 1932) was a German stage and film actor, screenwriter, and film producer whose career was most ...
- Herr Born
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Margit Manstad - Frau Claire
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Vivian Gibson
Vivian Gibson (22 October 1898 – 9 May 1981) was a British-born Austrian actress.
Selected filmography
* '' Demos'' (1921)
* '' The Glorious Adventure'' (1922)
* ''Fräulein Raffke'' (1923)
* ''Countess Maritza'' (1925)
* '' The King and the ...
*
Valerie Boothby
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Inge Landgut
Inge Landgut (23 November 1922 – 29 May 1986) was a German child actress. She is probably best-remembered for playing Pony Hütchen in '' Emil and the Detectives'' and as the child murder victim Elsie Beckmann in Fritz Lang's classic '' M'', b ...
Plot
Inge Duhan (Brink), a wealthy wife, begins conducting an affair, only to find herself blackmailed by another woman.
See also
*''
La Peur'' (1936)
*''
Fear
Fear is an intensely unpleasant emotion in response to perceiving or recognizing a danger or threat. Fear causes physiological changes that may produce behavioral reactions such as mounting an aggressive response or fleeing the threat. Fear ...
'' (1954)
References
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1928 films
Films of the Weimar Republic
German silent feature films
German drama films
British silent feature films
British drama films
Films directed by Hans Steinhoff
Films based on short fiction
Films based on works by Stefan Zweig
German black-and-white films
British black-and-white films
1920s British films
Silent drama films
1920s German films
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