''They May Not Marry'' (german: Die nicht heiraten dürfen) is a 1929 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 Carl Heinz Rudolph and starring

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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 Co ...

, and Günther Laufer. The film's sets were designed by

Karl Machus Karl Machus (1884–1944) was a German art director. Along with Erich Zander he designed the sets for most of the films made by director Veit Harlan during the Nazi era.Noack p.145 Selected filmography * '' Prince Cuckoo'' (1919) * '' Blonde P ...

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* 1929 films Films of the Weimar Republic German silent feature films Films directed by Carl Heinz Rudolph German black-and-white films {{Germany-silent-film-stub