''The Spies'' (German: ''Die Spione'') is a 1919 German

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directed by Ewald André Dupont and starring

Max Landa Max Landa ( be, Макс Ландаў; 24 April 1873 – 8 November 1933; born Max Landau) was a Russian-born Austrian silent film and stage actor. Career Landa attended the Handelsakademie (commercial academy) in Vienna and took classes ...

Johanna Terwin Johanna Terwin (1884–1962) was a German stage and film actress.Styan p.89 In the theatre she appeared in works by the impresario Max Reinhardt. She appeared in around twenty films during the silent and sound eras. She was married to the Albani ...

and Hanni Weisse.Bock & Bergfelder p.102 The film's sets were designed by the

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Robert A. Dietrich.

Cast

as Detektiv *

as Marion * Emil Rameau as Dr. Mahon * Bernhard Goetzke as Jean Babtiste, politische Agenten *

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as Jean Babtiste * Paul Biensfeldt as Dunkle Existenz * Hanni Weisse

References

Bibliography

* Hans-Michael Bock and Tim Bergfelder. ''The Concise Cinegraph: An Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009.

External links

* 1919 films Films of the Weimar Republic German silent feature films Films directed by E. A. Dupont German crime films 1919 crime films German black-and-white films 1910s German films 1910s German-language films {{1910s-Germany-film-stub