''The Man Who Sold Himself'' (german: Der Mann, der sich verkauft) is a 1925 German
silent crime
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drama film
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directed by
Hans Steinhoff
Hans Steinhoff (10 March 1882 – 20 April 1945) was a German film director, best known for the propaganda films he made in the Nazi era.
Life and career
Steinhoff started his career as a stage actor in the 1900s and later worked as a stag ...
and starring
Hans Mierendorff
Hans Mierendorff (born Johannes Reingold Mierendorff; 30 June 1882 – 26 December 1955) was a German stage and film actor.
Selected filmography
* '' A Night of Horror'' (1916)
* '' Vengeance Is Mine'' (1916)
* '' Hilde Warren und der Tod' ...
,
Vivian Gibson
Vivian Gibson (22 October 1898 – 9 May 1981) was a British-born Austrian actress.
Selected filmography
* '' Demos'' (1921)
* '' The Glorious Adventure'' (1922)
* ''Fräulein Raffke'' (1923)
* ''Countess Maritza'' (1925)
* '' The King and the ...
and
Olaf Fjord
Olaf Fjord (born Ämilian Maximilian Pouch; 3 August 1897 – 19 April 1945) was an Austrian actor, film director and film producer.
Selected filmography
* '' Der Herzog von Reichstadt'' (1920)
* ''Monna Vanna'' (1922)
* '' The Ragpicker of Pari ...
.
[Elsaesser, Thomas & Wedel, Michael. ''The BFI companion to German cinema''. ]British Film Institute
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, 1999. p. 229. It was shot at the
Terra Studios
The Terra Studios or Marienfelde Studios were film studios located in the Berlin suburb of Marienfelde.
The studios were originally a glasshouse constructed in 1913 by the early company Eiko Film, controlled by the producer Franz Vogel who ha ...
in
Berlin
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. The film's
art direction was by
Robert Neppach
Robert Neppach (2 March 1890 – 18 August 1939) was an Austrian architect, film producer and art director. Neppach worked from 1919 in the Cinema of Germany, German film industry. He oversaw the art direction of over 80 films during his career, i ...
.
Cast
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Hans Mierendorff
Hans Mierendorff (born Johannes Reingold Mierendorff; 30 June 1882 – 26 December 1955) was a German stage and film actor.
Selected filmography
* '' A Night of Horror'' (1916)
* '' Vengeance Is Mine'' (1916)
* '' Hilde Warren und der Tod' ...
as Jan Bracca
*
Vivian Gibson
Vivian Gibson (22 October 1898 – 9 May 1981) was a British-born Austrian actress.
Selected filmography
* '' Demos'' (1921)
* '' The Glorious Adventure'' (1922)
* ''Fräulein Raffke'' (1923)
* ''Countess Maritza'' (1925)
* '' The King and the ...
as Marion de L'Orme
*
Olaf Fjord
Olaf Fjord (born Ämilian Maximilian Pouch; 3 August 1897 – 19 April 1945) was an Austrian actor, film director and film producer.
Selected filmography
* '' Der Herzog von Reichstadt'' (1920)
* ''Monna Vanna'' (1922)
* '' The Ragpicker of Pari ...
as Achim von Wehrstädt
*
Nora Gregor
Nora Gregor (3 February 1901 – 20 January 1949) was an Austrian stage and film actress.
Biography
She was born Eleonora Hermina Gregor in Görz, a town which then belonged to Austria-Hungary, but is now part of Italy, to Austrian-Jewish paren ...
as Daisy Bracca
*Harry Lamberts-Paulsen as Chauffeur Plazceck
*
Bruno Kastner
Richard Otto Bruno Kastner (January 1890Different sources cite 1 January, 3 January, 20 January, and 30 January as Kastner's date of birth. – 30 June 1932) was a German stage and film actor, screenwriter, and film producer whose career was most ...
as Count Harden
*
Robert Garrison as theater director
*
Erich Kaiser-Titz
Heinrich Felix Erich Kaiser-Titz (7 October 1875 – 22 November 1928) was a German stage and film actor.
Selected filmography
* ''Tales of Hoffmann'' (1916)
* '' His Coquettish Wife'' (1916)
* ''The Knitting Needles'' (1916)
* '' The Night Talk ...
as Coroner Korn
*
Helga Molander
Helga Molander (born Ruth Werner; 19 March 1896 – 1986), was a German actress and mother of Hans Eysenck.
Life
Helga Molander was born in Königshütte, Upper Silesia, then Germany, to Jewish parents. She began her artistic career in 1918 at ...
as Eva
*
Hermann Picha
Hermann Picha (20 March 1865 – 7 June 1936) was a German stage and film actor. Picha was extremely prolific, appearing in over 300 short and feature films during the silent and early sound eras. Picha played a mixture of lead and supporting r ...
as office worker
References
External links
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1925 films
Films of the Weimar Republic
German silent feature films
Films directed by Hans Steinhoff
Adultery in films
Terra Film films
German black-and-white films
1920s German films
Films shot at Terra Studios
1925 drama films
German drama films
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