''The Dice Game of Life'' (German:''Des Lebens Würfelspiel'') is a 1925 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
Heinz Paul
Heinz Paul (13 August 1893 – 14 March 1983) was a German screenwriter, film producer and director. He was married to the actress Hella Moja.
Selected filmography Director
* ''The Street of Forgetting'' (1923)
* ''The Dice Game of Life'' (1925) ...
and starring
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)
...
,
Hella Moja and
Margarete Lanner
Margarete Lanner (1896–1981) was a German stage and film actress. She appeared in around 30 films during the silent and early sound eras in a mixture of leading and supporting roles. She had a small part in Fritz Lang's 1927 film ''Metropoli ...
.
[Grange p.203]
The film's
art direction was by
Botho Hoefer
Botho Hoefer (1880–1958) was a German art director.Parrill p.231
Selected filmography
* '' The Golden Plague'' (1921)
* '' Lucrezia Borgia'' (1922)
* '' Louise de Lavallière'' (1922)
* '' The Evangelist'' (1924)
* '' The Hobgoblin'' (1924)
* ...
and
Bernhard Schwidewski.
Cast
*
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)
...
as Frau Witwe Krüger
*
Hella Moja as Aenne, ihre Tochter
*
Margarete Lanner
Margarete Lanner (1896–1981) was a German stage and film actress. She appeared in around 30 films during the silent and early sound eras in a mixture of leading and supporting roles. She had a small part in Fritz Lang's 1927 film ''Metropoli ...
as Lotte, Aennes Freundin
*
Gerhard Ritterband
Gerhard Ritterband (1904–1959) was a German film actor.Hardt p.223
Selected filmography
* '' The Doll'' (1919)
* '' The Princess of the Nile'' (1920)
* '' Va banque'' (1920)
* '' A Day on Mars'' (1921)
* '' Four Around a Woman'' (1921)
* '' The ...
as Laufbursche im Blumenhaus
*
Paul Hartmann as Hanns Freiherr v. Rhoden
*
Arnold Korff
Arnold Peter Kirsch-Korff (2 August 1870 – 2 June 1944) was an Austrian-born American Hollywood actor and director. He appeared in a number of German and Austrian films before moving to the United States and resuming his career in America. He m ...
as Kommandeur des Ulanen-Regiments
*
Hans Brausewetter
Hans Brausewetter (27 May 1899 – 29 April 1945) was a German stage and film actor of the silent era. He appeared in more than 130 films between 1922 and 1945. He appeared in the 1923 film '' The Treasure'', which was directed by Georg Wil ...
as Emil Päschke, sein Bursche
*
Wilhelm Diegelmann
Wilhelm Diegelmann (28 September 1861 – 1 March 1934) was a German actor.
Career
Diegelmann's first stage appearance was in 1878 in the chorus for the Frankfurt Opera. In 1881 he debuted at the Frankfurt City Theater, playing King Lear, Will ...
as Wilh. Päschke, Vater
*
Ilka Grüning
Ilka Grüning (born Ilka Henriette Grunzweig; 4 September 1876 – 11 November 1964) was an Austrian-Hungarian actress. Born in Vienna in the old Austrian-Hungarian Empire, she was one of many Jewish actors and actresses that were forced to fle ...
as Emils Mutter
*
Hermann Vallentin
Hermann Vallentin (24 May 1872 – 18 September 1945) was a German actor.
Biography
Hermann Vallentin was born in Berlin in 1872. He was the son of a Jewish timber merchant and factory owner, Felix Vallentin. He was the older brother of actress ...
as Kommerzienrat Reichenberg
*
Olga Engl
Olga Engl (30 May 1871 – 21 September 1946) was an Austrian-German stage and motion picture actress who appeared in nearly 200 films.
Biography
Engl was privately educated in an Ursuline monastery and began her acting career at the Prague C ...
as Reichenbergs Frau
*
Frizzi Richard as Ise - beider Tochter
*
Ferdinand von Alten
Ferdinand is a Germanic name composed of the elements "protection", "peace" (PIE "to love, to make peace") or alternatively "journey, travel", Proto-Germanic , abstract noun from root "to fare, travel" (PIE , "to lead, pass over"), and "co ...
as Bankier George Neumann
*
Karl Platen
Karl Platen (6 March 1877 – 4 July 1952) was a German actor and cinematographer known for '' Girl in the Moon'' (1929) and '' M'' (1931).
Biography
Karl Platen was born as Carl Platen on March 6, 1877 in Halle an der Saale, Germany. He died ...
as Sein Diener
*
Albert Paulig as Theaterdirektor
*
Rudolf Klein-Rhoden
Rudolf Klein-Rhoden (27 January 1871 – 5 January 1936) was a German stage and film actor.
Selected filmography
* '' Madeleine'' (1919)
* '' Sins of the Parents'' (1919)
* '' Intoxication'' (1919)
* '' Prostitution'' (1919)
* ''Indische Nächte'' ...
as Großindustrieller Stenis
*
Fritz Beckmann as Stellenvermittler
*
Fritz Ruß as Lohndiener
References
Bibliography
* Grange, William. ''Cultural Chronicle of the Weimar Republic''. Scarecrow Press, 2008.
External links
*
1925 films
Films of the Weimar Republic
Films directed by Heinz Paul
German silent feature films
German black-and-white films
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