''The White Demon'' (German: ''Der weiße Dämon'') is a 1932 German

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

Kurt Gerron Kurt Gerron (11 May 1897 – 28 October 1944) was a German Jewish actor and film director. He and his wife, Olga were murdered in the Holocaust. Life Born Kurt Gerson into a well-off merchant family in Berlin, he studied medicine before being ca ...

and starring Hans Albers,

Gerda Maurus Gerda Maurus (25 August 1903 – 31 July 1968) was an Austrian actress. She was of Croatian descent and initially made her name on stage in Vienna. While performing in the theatre, she was discovered by the director Fritz Lang during a visit to ...

and

Peter Lorre Peter Lorre (; born László Löwenstein, ; June 26, 1904 – March 23, 1964) was a Hungarian and American actor, first in Europe and later in the United States. He began his stage career in Vienna, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, before movin ...

.Kreimeier pp. 198–199 The film is also known by the

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of ''Dope''. The sets were designed by the art director

Julius von Borsody Julius von Borsody (8 April 1892 in Vienna – 18 January 1960, also in Vienna) was an Austrian film architect and one of the most employed set designers in the Austrian and German cinemas of the late silent and early sound film periods. His yo ...

. A separate French-language version '' Narcotics'' was also made.

Synopsis

A drug dealer gets a rising young female singer addicted to drugs. Her brother decides to hunt him down in revenge.

Cast

References

Bibliography

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

External links

* 1932 films 1932 crime drama films German crime drama films Films of the Weimar Republic 1930s German-language films Films directed by Kurt Gerron UFA GmbH films Films about drugs German multilingual films Films about siblings German black-and-white films 1932 multilingual films 1930s German films {{1930s-Germany-film-stub