''The Chain of Guilt'' (German:''Die Kette der Schuld'') is a 1921 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

Franz Osten Franz Osten (23 December 1876 in Munich – 2 December 1956) was a Bavaria, Bavarian filmmaker who along with Himansu Rai was among the first retainers of Bombay Talkies. Osten partnered with Rai on a number of India's earliest blockbuster film ...

.Narwekar p.218

Cast

In alphabetical order *

Viktor Gehring Viktor Gehring (10 January 1889 – 24 April 1978) was a German stage and film actor.Giesen p.213 Selected filmography * '' The Hunter of Fall'' (1918) * '' The Monastery's Hunter'' (1920) * '' The Chain of Guilt'' (1921) * '' Trutzi from Trutzbe ...

as Matthes Sutter, Pelzjäger *

Fritz Greiner Fritz Greiner (1879–1933) was an Austrian film actor. Selected filmography * ''Der Einäugige'' (1916) * ''Der Klub der Einäugigen'' (1917) - Nick Carter * ''Der schwarze Jack'' (1918) - Cowboy Schwarzer Jack * '' The Hunter of Fall'' (1918 ...

as Robert Wit *

Eugen Gura Eugen Gura (8 November 184226 August 1906) was a German operatic baritone. Life Gura was born in Nové Sedlo, Louny District, Bohemia (now in the Czech Republic). He was at first educated for the career of a painter at Vienna and Munich; ...

as Bankier Torn *

Violetta Napierska Violetta Napierska (sometimes ''Violette Napierska'') was a film actress. Most of her acting career she worked in German silent films, often with Béla Lugosi (with whom she had a romantic relationship for a time), Lee Parry and director Richard ...

as Ethel Torn *

Henri Peters-Arnolds Henri is an Estonian, Finnish, French, German and Luxembourgish form of the masculine given name Henry. People with this given name ; French noblemen :'' See the 'List of rulers named Henry' for Kings of France named Henri.'' * Henri I de Montm ...

as Harry

References

Bibliography

* Sanjit Narwekar. ''Directory of Indian film-makers and films''. Flicks Books, 1994.

External links

* 1921 films Films of the Weimar Republic Films directed by Franz Osten German silent feature films German black-and-white films {{Germany-silent-film-stub