''The Grehn Case'' (German: ''Der Fall Grehn'') is a 1916 German silent

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directed by

William Kahn William Kahn (1882–1959) was a German screenwriter, film producer and director of the silent era.Elsaesser & Wedel p.144 Selected filmography * '' The Grehn Case'' (1916) * ''The Sin of Helga Arndt'' (1916) * ''Circus People'' (1922) * '' The G ...

and starring

Reinhold Schünzel Reinhold Schünzel (7 November 1888 – 11 November 1954) was a German actor and director, active in both Germany and the United States. The son of a German father and a Jewish mother, he was born in St. Pauli, the poorest part of Hamburg. Despite ...

and

Ernst Pittschau Ernst Pittschau (5 October 1883 – 2 June 1951) was a German stage and film actor. Biography Pittschau, whose father's name was also named Ernst Pittschau, a stage actor, received an education in business and had a brief career selling dental p ...

.Bock & Bergfelder p.433 A detective investigates the murder of a painter.

Cast

as Kriminalrat Rat Anheim *

as Professor Herkdal * Conrad Barden as Mahler Jan Grehn * Gernot Bock-Stieber as Globetrotter Diaz Ramson * Otto Collet * August Rotter as van Gylhem * Lo Vallis as Cläre Pontda

References

Bibliography

* Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009.

External links

* 1916 films Films of the German Empire German silent feature films Films directed by William Kahn German crime films 1916 crime films German black-and-white films 1910s German films {{1910s-Germany-film-stub