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silent comedy film
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directed by
Johannes Guter
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and starring
Georg Alexander
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He was married ...
,
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and
Elisabeth Pinajeff
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Selected filmography
* ''Count Cohn'' (1923)
* '' ...
. It was one of two comedy films with which Guter followed up his more melancholy ''
The Tower of Silence''. It was shot at
UFA
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's
Babelsberg Studios
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.
[Jacobsen p.354] The film's
art direction
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was by
Rudi Feld
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. It premiered at the
Gloria-Palast
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in
Berlin
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Cast
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Georg Alexander
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He was married ...
as Filip Collin
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Ossi Oswalda Ossi may refer to:
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* Open Source Seed Initiative, dedicated to maintaining access to plant genetic resources
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as Daisy Cuffler
*
Elisabeth Pinajeff
Elisabeth Pinajeff (born Elizabeta Sergeyevna Pinayeva; russian: Елизавета Сергеевна Пинаева, 17 April 1900 – 31 December 1995) was a Russian-German actress.Prawer p.87
Selected filmography
* ''Count Cohn'' (1923)
* '' ...
as Alice Walters
*
Adolf E. Licho as President Cuffler, Daisys Vater
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Alexander Murski
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as Reeder John Walters, ALices Onkel
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Erich Kaiser-Titz
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Selected filmography
* ''Tales of Hoffmann'' (1916)
* '' His Coquettish Wife'' (1916)
* ''The Knitting Needles'' (1916)
* '' The Night Talk ...
as Austin Bateson
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Paul Biensfeldt
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Selected filmogra ...
as Austins Bruder
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Karl Victor Plagge
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Hans Junkermann
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*
Karl Platen
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Karl Platen was born as Carl Platen on March 6, 1877 in Halle an der Saale, Germany. He died ...
References
Bibliography
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* Jacobsen, Wolfgang . ''Babelsberg: das Filmstudio''. Argon, 1994.
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1925 films
1925 comedy films
1920s German-language films
Films of the Weimar Republic
German silent feature films
German comedy films
Films directed by Johannes Guter
Films based on Swedish novels
UFA GmbH films
German black-and-white films
Films produced by Erich Pommer
Silent comedy films
1920s German films
Films shot at Babelsberg Studios
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