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was by Heinrich Richter and Franz Schroedter. The film is notable for the performance of Veit Harlan, later the director who made the controversial

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'' Jew Suss'', as a Jewish barber in a film made by a director who later died in the holocaust.Prawer p.83

Cast

* Werner Krauss as Theobald Maske * Jenny Jugo as Luise Maske * Rudolf Forster as Scarron * Veit Harlan as Mandelstam *

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as Fürst * Olga Limburg as Elfri de Deuter

References

Bibliography

* Kreimeier, Klaus. ''The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918-1945''. University of California Press, 1999. * Prawer, S.S. ''Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933''. Berghahn Books, 2005.

External links

* 1927 films Films of the Weimar Republic German silent feature films German comedy films Films directed by Hans Behrendt German films based on plays 1927 comedy films Films with screenplays by Franz Schulz German black-and-white films Phoebus Film films Silent comedy films 1920s German films {{Germany-silent-film-stub