''Give Me Life'' (German: ''Schenk mir das Leben'') is a 1928 German
silent drama film
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directed by Klaus Fery and starring
Grete Reinwald
Grete Reinwald (25 May 1902 – 24 May 1983) was a German stage and film actress. As a child, due to her sweet, appealing features she modeled for many monochrome, hand-tinted and autochrome postcards. Her siblings Hanni Reinwald and Otto Reinwal ...
,
Henry Stuart and
Elizza La Porta
Elizza La Porta (born Eliza Streinu; 1 March 1902 – 15 November 1997) was a Romanian-born film actress.Goble p.515
La Porta was born in Craiova into a Jewish family. She appeared in a number of German films during the silent film era. She ret ...
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[Lamprecht p.195]
The film's sets were designed by the
art director
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It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...
Willi Herrmann
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Selected filmography
* '' Madness'' (1919)
* '' Child on the Open Road'' (1919)
* '' Jettatore'' (1919)
* ''Humanity Unleashed'' (1920)
* '' The Secrets of Berlin'' (1921)
* ''The Maharaja ...
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Cast
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Grete Reinwald
Grete Reinwald (25 May 1902 – 24 May 1983) was a German stage and film actress. As a child, due to her sweet, appealing features she modeled for many monochrome, hand-tinted and autochrome postcards. Her siblings Hanni Reinwald and Otto Reinwal ...
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Henry Stuart
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Elizza La Porta
Elizza La Porta (born Eliza Streinu; 1 March 1902 – 15 November 1997) was a Romanian-born film actress.Goble p.515
La Porta was born in Craiova into a Jewish family. She appeared in a number of German films during the silent film era. She ret ...
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Jules Massaro
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Grit Haid
Grit Haid (born Margarete Haid, 14 March 1900 – 13 August 1938) was an Austrian stage and film actress.Kapczynski & Richardson p.60 She was the younger sister of the actress Liane Haid. She died in a plane crash in 1938.
Selected filmography
* ...
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Jakob Tiedtke
Jakob Karl Heinrich Wilhelm Tiedtke (23 June 1875 – 30 June 1960) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 190 films between 1914 and 1955.
Selected filmography
* ''The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1918 film), The Pied Piper of Hamel ...
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Olga Limburg
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Robert Scholz
Robert Scholz (23 April 1886 – 10 October 1927) was a German film actor of the silent era. He appeared in 76 films between 1919 and 1928. He was born in Germany and died in Berlin.
Selected filmography
* ''A Drive into the Blue'' (1919) ...
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Gertrud Arnold
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Harry Frank
Harry Frank (15 October 1896 – 12 December 1947) was a German actor.
Selected filmography
* '' In den Goldfeldern von Nevada'' (1920)
* ''Das wandernde Bild'' (1920)
* ''The Wandering Image'' (1920)
* ''Four Around a Woman'' (1921)
* ''The Pas ...
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Julietta Brandt
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Victor Colani
Victor Max Colani (30 October 1895 – 25 November 1957) was a German actor.
He was born in Zittau and died in The Hague, Netherlands.
Selected filmography
* '' Der vergiftete Strom'' (1921)
* '' Lightning Command'' (1921)
* ''The Poisoned Stream ...
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Hugo Döblin
Hugo Döblin (29 October 1876 – 4 November 1960) was a German stage and film actor.Hardt p.233 He appeared in more than eighty films, most of them during the silent era. The Jewish Döblin left Germany following the Nazi Party's rise to power in ...
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Maria Forescu
Maria Forescu (15 January 1875 28 October 1947) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian opera singer and film actress. During the silent and talkies era of the German cinema, she appeared in several movies as a supporting actress. When Adolf Hitl ...
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Stefanie Hantzsch
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Antonie Jaeckel
Antonie Jaeckel (5 September 1876 – 26 December 1960) was a German actress.
Selected filmography
* ''Madeleine (1919 film), Madeleine'' (1919)
* ''Fridericus Rex'' (1922)
* ''The Unknown Tomorrow'' (1923)
* ''Cock of the Roost'' (1925)
* ''If On ...
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Oskar Karlweis
Oskar Leopold Karlweis (often credited Oscar Karlweis; 10 July 1894 – 24 January 1956) was an Austrian-American stage and film actor, active internationally.
Career
Born in Hinterbrühl, Austria-Hungary, he was the son of playwright Carl Ka ...
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Hilde Maroff
Hilde Maroff (5 June 1904 – 15 August 1984) was a German stage and film actress. She was the mother of the child actor Peter Bosse.
Selected filmography
* ''Kubinke the Barber'' (1926)
* ''Love's Joys and Woes'' (1926)
* ''Sister Veronika'' (1 ...
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Sylvia Torf
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Helen von Münchofen
Helen von Münchofen (often spelt Helen von Muenchhofen) (1904–1956) was a Danish-German film actress. She was born in Copenhagen, but later moved to Germany, where she embarked on a career in films. She played a small part in Fritz Lang's ''Me ...
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Sascha von Wanowska
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Hedwig Wangel
Hedwig Wangel (1875–1961) was a German stage and film actress.
Life and career
Born as Amalie Pauline Hedwig Simon on September 23, 1875, in Berlin in the German Empire, Hedwig Wangel was the daughter of a music publisher. After studying acting ...
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Geza L. Weiss
References
Bibliography
* Gerhard Lamprecht. ''Deutsche Stummfilme: 1927-1931''.
External links
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1928 films
Films of the Weimar Republic
German silent feature films
1928 drama films
German drama films
German black-and-white films
Silent drama films
1920s German films
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