''Detektiv Braun'' ( en, Detective Brown, italic=yes, link=yes) is a 1914

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silent

crime film Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine ...

directed by

Rudolf Meinert Rudolf Meinert (1882–6 March 1943) was an Austrian screenwriter, film producer and film director, director. Meinert was born Rudolf Bürstein in Vienna, but worked for most of his career in the Cinema of Germany, German film industry. He became ...

and starring

Alwin Neuß Carl Alwin Heinrich Neuß (17 June 1879 – 30 October 1935) was a German film director and actor, noted for playing Sherlock Holmes in a series of silent films during the 1910s. He also played the dual role of Jekyll and Hyde in the 1910 Danish ...

and Friedrich Kühne. It was part of a series of German films featuring Neuß as

Arthur Conan Doyle Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for ''A Study in Scarlet'', the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Ho ...

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Cast

as Sherlock Holmes * Friedrich Kühne as Stapleton

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* Films of the German Empire German silent feature films German crime films Films directed by Rudolf Meinert Films based on British novels Sherlock Holmes films Films set in England Films set in London German black-and-white films 1910s crime films Silent mystery films Silent thriller films 1910s German films {{1910s-crime-film-stub