''Circumstantial Evidence'' (German: ''Indizienbeweis'') is a 1929
German
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silent crime film
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directed by
Georg Jacoby
Georg Jacoby (23 July 1882 – 21 February 1964) was a German film director and screenwriter.Profile
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and starring
Fritz Alberti
Fritz Alberti (born Friedrich Wilhelm Alberti; 22 October 1877 – 15 September 1954) was a German actor.
Selected filmography
* ''People in Ecstasy'' (1921)
* '' The Other Woman'' (1924)
* ''The Blackguard'' (1925)
* '' Ship in Distress'' (1925 ...
,
Ruth Weyher
Ruth Weyher (28 May 1901 – 27 January 1983) was a German film actress of the silent era. She appeared in 60 films between 1920 and 1930. She starred in the 1926 film ''Secrets of a Soul'', which was directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst.
Selected f ...
,
Valy Arnheim
Valy Arnheim (born Valentin Theodor Woldemar Appel; 8 June 1883 – 11 November 1950) was a German film actor and director.
Selected filmography
* ''Lightning Command'' (1921)
* ''Anne-Liese of Dessau'' (1925)
* ''Harry Hill's Deadly Hunt'' (192 ...
and
Henry Edwards. It is based on the 1886 novel ''
Vendetta
Vendetta may refer to:
* Feud or vendetta, a long-running argument or fight
Film
* ''Vendetta'' (1919 film), a film featuring Harry Liedtke
* ''Vendetta'' (1950 film), an American drama produced by Howard Hughes
* ''Vendetta'' (1986 film), a ...
'' by
Marie Corelli
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From the appearance of her first novel ''A Romance of Two Worlds'' in 1886, she became the bestsel ...
. Countess Romani grows bored of her life in
Corsica
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and wishes to go elsewhere. It is also known by the
alternative title
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''Vendetta''. It premiered on 15 February 1929.
Cast
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Ruth Weyher
Ruth Weyher (28 May 1901 – 27 January 1983) was a German film actress of the silent era. She appeared in 60 films between 1920 and 1930. She starred in the 1926 film ''Secrets of a Soul'', which was directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst.
Selected f ...
as Countess Romani
*
Olaf Fjord
Olaf Fjord (born Ämilian Maximilian Pouch; 3 August 1897 – 19 April 1945) was an Austrian actor, film director and film producer.
Selected filmography
* '' Der Herzog von Reichstadt'' (1920)
* ''Monna Vanna'' (1922)
* '' The Ragpicker of Pari ...
as Georges
*
Henry Edwards as Count Fabio Romani
*
Suzy Vernon
Suzy Vernon (1901–1997) was a French film actress.Powrie p.178 Vernon was born Amelie Paris in Perpignan in Southern France. She began her screen career in 1923 during the silent era and went on to appear in just under fifty films. She generally ...
as Maria Ferrat
*
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'', bo ...
as Stella
*
Hilde Jennings as Zofe der Gräfin
*
Bernd Aldor
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as alter Diener
*Félix P. Soler as Hassan Salem
*
Fritz Alberti
Fritz Alberti (born Friedrich Wilhelm Alberti; 22 October 1877 – 15 September 1954) was a German actor.
Selected filmography
* ''People in Ecstasy'' (1921)
* '' The Other Woman'' (1924)
* ''The Blackguard'' (1925)
* '' Ship in Distress'' (1925 ...
as Gerichtspräsident
*Paul Nikolaus as Prosecutor
*
Max Neufeld
Max Neufeld (13 February 1887 – 2 December 1967) was an Austrian film director, actor and screenwriter. He directed 70 films between 1919 and 1957. He directed the 1934 film '' The Song of the Sun'', which starred Vittorio De Sica.
Select ...
as Defense lawyer
*Otto Kronburger as Kommissar
*
Valy Arnheim
Valy Arnheim (born Valentin Theodor Woldemar Appel; 8 June 1883 – 11 November 1950) was a German film actor and director.
Selected filmography
* ''Lightning Command'' (1921)
* ''Anne-Liese of Dessau'' (1925)
* ''Harry Hill's Deadly Hunt'' (192 ...
as Detektiv
*
Karl Elzer
Karl Conrad Elzer (2 August 1881 – 30 August 1938) was a German film actor.
Elzer was born in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany and died in Rottach-Egern, Bavaria, Germany at age 57.
Selected filmography
* ''The Robber Bride'' (1916)
* '' ...
as Oberkellner
References
External links
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Films of the Weimar Republic
1929 crime films
German crime films
German silent feature films
Films directed by Georg Jacoby
Films based on British novels
Films based on works by Marie Corelli
Films set in Corsica
German black-and-white films
1920s German films
1920s German-language films
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