''The Woman in the Advocate's Gown'' (; ) is a 1929 Norwegian-German silent

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directed by

Adolf Trotz Adolf Trotz (September 6, 1895 – after 1937) was a German film director. He was known for his films in the '' Mittelfilme'' (mid-budget) genre. Early life Trotz was born in Janow in what is now Poland in Silesia. He originally studied pharmac ...

and starring

Aud Egede-Nissen Aud Egede-Nissen (30 May 1893 – 15 November 1974) was a Norwegians, Norwegian actress, director and producer. She appeared in many early 20th-century German silent films. Early life Born in Bergen, Norway in 1893, Egede-Nissen was a daughter ...

Paul Richter Paul Richter (1 April 1895 – 30 December 1961) was an Austrian film actor. He owed his great popularity in German films of the silent era largely to the directors Joe May and Fritz Lang. Biography Richter made his film debut right before W ...

, and

Fritz Kortner Fritz Kortner (born Fritz Nathan Kohn, 12 May 1892 – 22 July 1970) was an Austrian stage and film actor and theatre director. Life and career Kortner was born in Vienna as Fritz Nathan Kohn into a Jews, Jewish family. He studied at the Vien ...

. The screenplay was based on 's novel ''Frk. Statsadvokat'', published in 1929. It was shot at the

EFA Studios The EFA Studios or Halensee Studios were film studios located in the Berlin suburb of Halensee. They were a prominent centre of film production in the silent and early sound era. Constructed in 1919 after the First World War, they were part of a ...

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. The film's

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was by

Hans Jacoby Hans Jacoby (1904–1963) was a German screenwriter. Jacoby was of Jewish backgroundPrawer p.212 and was forced to go into exile when the Nazi Party took power in 1933. Jacoby settled in the United States for many years, working on the screenplay ...

Plot

A female

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commits suicide after discovering the

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case she is prosecuting had been committed by her own father.

Cast

as Jonne Holm *

as Rolf Brönne *

as Consul Backhaug *

Mona Mårtenson Monica Ingeborg Elisabeth "Mona" Mårtenson (4 May 1902 – 8 July 1956) was a Swedish film actress. She appeared in 28 films between 1923 and 1949. She was born and died in Stockholm, Sweden. Early career Mona grew up in Helsingborg and s ...

as Agda, Rolf's cousin *

Nikolai Malikoff Nikolai Malikoff (Russian: Николай Петрович Маликов; 1874 – 20 April 1931) was a Russian film director and actor who worked mainly as a film director in Russia, and later as an actor in Germany.Goble p.673 Selected filmog ...

as Wholesaler Holm *

Wolfgang Zilzer Wolfgang Zilzer (January 20, 1901 – June 26, 1991) was a German-American stage and film actor, often under the stage name Paul Andor. Biography Zilzer was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, to German-Jewish emigrant Max Zilzer, who was employed at the ...

as Leif Andersen *Synnøve Tessmann *

Sigmund Ruud Sigmund Ruud (30 December 1907 – 7 April 1994) was a Norwegian ski jumper. Together with his brothers Birger and Asbjørn, he dominated ski jumping in the 1920s and 1930s. Career At the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Sigmund earned a sil ...

Mildred Mehle Mildred Mehle (née Folkestad, August 24, 1904 – February 16, 1987) was a Norwegians, Norwegian actress. She appeared in three films between 1929 and 1931. Family Mildred Mehle was the daughter of the painter Bernhard Folkestad and Kari Selvig ...

Ferdinand Bonn Ferdinand Bonn (20 December 1861 – 24 September 1933) was a German stage and film actor. Bonn was born in Donauwörth, Kingdom of Bavaria and died at age 71 in Berlin. Selected filmography * ''Svengali'' (1914) * '' The Silent Mill'' (1914) * ...

Hugo Döblin Hugo Döblin (29 October 1876 – 4 November 1960) was a German stage and film actor.Hardt, Ursula. ''From Caligari to California: Erich Pommer's Life in the International Film Wars''. Berghahn Books, 1996. p. 233 He appeared in more than eighty ...

* Hanni Reinwald

References

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* 1929 drama films German drama films Films of the Weimar Republic German silent feature films Films directed by Adolf Trotz German black-and-white films Norwegian drama films Norwegian black-and-white films Silent German drama films 1920s German films Films shot at Halensee Studios {{1920s-Germany-silent-drama-film-stub