''Five Minutes Too Late'' (German: ''Fünf Minuten zu spät'') is a 1918 German silent

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directed by Uwe Jens Krafft and starring

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Johannes Riemann Johannes Riemann (31 May 1888 – 30 September 1959) was a German actor and film director. Riemann was a member of the Nazi Party.Ernst Klee (2007) ''Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich: Wer war was vor und nach 1945''. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Ver ...

and

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.Krautz p.501

Cast

as Jana Vermöhlen *

as Reinhold *

Grete Diercks Margarete "Grete" Diercks (September 1, 1890, in Hamburg – July 15, 1978, in Lauingen) was a German actress. Biography Diercks had been active since childhood as an actress at the 1900 Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. On her 11th birthday, ...

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* Frau Pütz

References

Bibliography

* Alfred Krautz. ''International directory of cinematographers, set- and costume designers in film, Volume 4''. Saur, 1984.

External links

* 1918 films Films of the German Empire German silent feature films Films directed by Uwe Jens Krafft German thriller films 1910s thriller films UFA GmbH films German black-and-white films Silent thriller films 1910s German films {{silent-thriller-film-stub