''Play Around a Man'' (german: Spiel um den Mann) is a 1929 German

silent film A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, when ...

directed by

Robert Land Robert Land (1887–1940) was an Austrian-Jewish film director of Moravian descent. Biography Born as Robert Liebmann to a German-speaking Jewish Family in Kroměříž. Land moved to Vienna to study German literature and art history. He started ...

and starring

Liane Haid Juliane "Liane" Haid (16 August 1895 – 28 November 2000) was an Austrian actress and singer. She has often been referred to as Austria's first movie star. Biography Juliane Haid was born in Vienna on 16 August 1895, the first child to Georg ...

Anna Kallina Anna Kallina (31 March 1874 – 4 January 1948) was an Austrian stage and film actress. She played the role of Anne, Queen of Great Britain, in the 1921 film ''The Grinning Face'' (1921).Gleizes p.244 Kallina first began acting on the state in th ...

, and

Fred Louis Lerch Fred Louis Lerch (28 March 1902 – 26 August 1985) was an Austrian actor who was a star of German films. From 1951 till 1961 he worked again for German cinema as a production manager. Selected filmography * '' The Portrait'' (1923) * '' A Waltz ...

. The film's sets were designed by the

art director Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film industry, film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...

Edgar G. Ulmer.

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* 1929 films Films of the Weimar Republic Films directed by Robert Land German silent feature films German black-and-white films 1920s German films {{1920s-Germany-film-stub