''The Chain Clinks'' (german: Die Kette klirrt) is a 1923 German
silent film
A silent film is a film with no synchronized Sound recording and reproduction, 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) ...
directed by
Paul L. Stein and starring
Ressel Orla,
Alfons Fryland
Alfons Fryland (1 May 1888 – 29 November 1953) was an Austrian film actor. He appeared in 47 films between 1921 and 1933. He was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now Austria) and died in Graz, Austria.
Selected filmography
* '' Labyrinth d ...
, and
Grete Diercks.
The film's sets were designed by the
art director Fritz Lederer.
Cast
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Ressel Orla
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Alfons Fryland
Alfons Fryland (1 May 1888 – 29 November 1953) was an Austrian film actor. He appeared in 47 films between 1921 and 1933. He was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now Austria) and died in Graz, Austria.
Selected filmography
* '' Labyrinth d ...
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Grete Diercks
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Kurt Brenkendorf
Kurt Brenkendorf (born Benno Kurt Bockenheuser; 13 June 1882 – 10 September 1944) was a German stage and film actor.Grange p.256
Selected filmography
*''The Mexican'' (1918)
* '' Victim of Society'' (1919)
* ''The Prisoner'' (1920)
* '' Deceiv ...
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Leonhard Haskel
Leonhard Haskel (7 April 1872 – 30 December 1923) was a German stage and film actor and drama teacher.
Haskel was born in Seelow, in the Prussian Province of Brandenburg, and died in Berlin.
Selected filmography
* ''Europe, General Deliver ...
*Hans Merkwitz
*Ursula Nest
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Frida Richard
Frida Richard (born Friederike Raithel, 1 November 1873 – 12 September 1946) was an Austrian actress.
Selected filmography
* '' The Sin of Helga Arndt'' (1916)
* '' The Queen's Love Letter'' (1916)
* '' The Marriage of Luise Rohrbach'' (1917)
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Fritz Richard
Fritz Richard (born Josef Richard Löwit; 17 November 1869 – 9 February 1933) was an Austrian actor and theatre director.
Fritz Richard was born as Josef Richard Löwit in Chotěboř, Austria-Hungary into a Jewish family.
Richard trained as ...
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Eduard Rothauser
Eduard Rothauser (1876–1956) was an Austrian-born German actor.
Selected filmography
* '' The Man in the Cellar'' (1914)
* '' The Princess of Urbino'' (1919)
* '' Nobody Knows'' (1920)
* ''The Graveyard of the Living'' (1921)
* '' The Mahar ...
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Walter Steinbeck
Walter Steinbeck (26 September 1878 – 27 August 1942) was a German film actor.
Steinbeck was born in Niederlößnitz (now Radebeul), Saxony, Germany. He died at age 63 in Berlin, Germany.
Selected filmography
* ''The Romance of a Poor S ...
References
External links
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Films of the Weimar Republic
German silent feature films
Films directed by Paul L. Stein
German black-and-white films
1920s German films
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