''One Does Not Play with Love'' (german: Man spielt nicht mit der Liebe) is a 1926
silent German
drama film
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directed by
G. W. Pabst
Georg Wilhelm Pabst (25 August 1885 – 29 May 1967) was an Austrian film director and screenwriter. He started as an actor and theater director, before becoming one of the most influential German-language filmmakers during the Weimar Republic.
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. The film is an adaptation of the 1834 play by
Alfred de Musset, ''On ne badine pas avec l'amour''. The film is considered to be a
lost film
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Cast
* Werner Krauss
Werner Johannes Krauss (''Krauß'' in German; 23 June 1884 – 20 October 1959) was a German stage and film actor. Krauss dominated the German stage of the early 20th century. However, his participation in the antisemitic propaganda film ''Jud S ...
as Fürst Colalto (''Prince Colalto'')
* Lili Damita
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as Calixta
* Erna Morena
Erna Morena (born Ernestine Maria Fuchs, 24 April 1885 – 20 July 1962) was a German film actress, film producer, and screenwriter of the silent era. She appeared in 104 films between 1913 and 1951.
Biography
Ernestine Maria Fuchs was born in ...
as Florence, ehemalige Opernsängerin (''alumna opera singer'')
* Egon von Jordan
Egon von Jordan (19 March 1902 – 27 December 1978) was an Austrian film actor. He appeared in more than 80 films between 1923 and 1974.
Selected filmography
* '' The Ghost of Morton's Castle'' (1922)
* '' Young Medardus'' (1923)
* ''Lace' ...
as Eugen Lewis
* Artur Retzbach as Nepallek, Hofmobiliardirektor (''Director of the furniture of the court'') (as Artur Retzbach-Erasiny)
* Oreste Bilancia
Oreste Bilancia (24 September 1881 – 31 October 1945) was an Italian film actor.
Born in Catania, Sicily he was a star of Italian films in the silent era. He worked during the 1920s in Weimar Germany which had the largest European film indus ...
as Der Freund (''the friend'')
* Gustav Czimeg
Gustav Czimeg (December 20, 1877 – August 21, 1939) was a German actor of the silent period. He appeared in films such as '' Madame DuBarry'' (1919), in which he played Duke Aiguillon, '' Die Rache des Titanen'' (1919), '' Glasprinzessin'' ...
* Tala Birell
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as Bit Role (as Thala Birell)
* Karl Etlinger
Karl Etlinger (16 October 1879 – 8 May 1946) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 110 films between 1914 and 1946.
Selected filmography
* '' The Eternal Curse'' (1921)
* '' The Poisoned Stream'' (1921)
* '' The Films of Prin ...
* Maria Paudler
* Mathilde Sussin
Mathilde Sussin (21 September 1876 – 2 August 1943) was an Austrian actress.
Sussin was born in Vienna into a Jewish family and died in 1943 at Theresienstadt concentration camp in Czechoslovakia.
Selected filmography
* '' The Black Tulip Fe ...
See also
* List of lost films
References
External links
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1926 films
1926 drama films
German silent feature films
German black-and-white films
Films directed by G. W. Pabst
Films of the Weimar Republic
Lost German films
Films produced by Arnold Pressburger
German films based on plays
Films based on works by Alfred de Musset
Films set in the 1910s
Films set in Vienna
Phoebus Film films
1926 lost films
Lost drama films
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