''The Vice of Gambling'' (german: Das Laster des Spiels) is a 1923 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

Dimitri Buchowetzki Dimitri Buchowetzki (1885–1932) born Dmitry Savelyevych Bukhovecky was a Russian film director, screenwriter, and actor in Germany, Sweden, United States, United Kingdom, and France. Life and career Initially Buchowetzki studied law. Later h ...

and starring

Alfred Abel Alfred Peter Abel (12 March 1879 – 12 December 1937) was a German film actor, director, and producer. He appeared in more than 140 silent and sound films between 1913 and 1938. His best-known performance was as Joh Fredersen in Fritz Lang' ...

, Willy Kaiser-Heyl, and Theodor Loos. The film's sets were designed by the

art director Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film industry, film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...

Hans Dreier Hans Dreier (August 21, 1885 – October 24, 1966) was a German motion picture art director. He was Paramount Pictures' supervising art director from 1927 until his retirement in 1950, when he was succeeded by Hal Pereira. Hans Dreier was born i ...

Cast

* Willy Kaiser-Heyl * Theodor Loos *

Sybill Morel Sybill Morel (February 16, 1899 – ?) was a German stage and film actress of the silent era. Selected filmography * '' The Geisha and the Samurai'' (1919) * ''Opium'' (1919) * ''The Tragedy of a Great'' (1920) * '' Three Nights'' (1920) * ''The ...

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* 1923 films Films of the Weimar Republic German silent feature films Films directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki German black-and-white films Films about gambling 1920s German films {{1920s-Germany-film-stub