Overview
Drama based on a play by Friedrich Wolf. Hete is pregnant, hoping to have a family with her fiancé Paul. When the factory where she and Paul work sacks all striking workers, she tries to find a legal abortion. But there is only the illegal option - the eponymous cyanide.
Fun facts
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Setting
Set in Berlin
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Music
Music by Willy Schmidt-Gentner
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Günther Krampf
Details
- Director
- Writer
- Hans TintnerScreenplay
- Original title
- Cyankali
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- May 22, 1930
- Original language
- German
- Countries
- Germany
Production
Cast
Grete MosheimHete Fent
Josefine DoraFrau Klee
Margarete KupferFrau Heye- Paul HenckelsDr.Meyer
Paul KempKuckuck
Blandine EbingerHinterhofsängerin- Herma FordFrau Fent
Nico TuroffPaul, Hetes Bräutigam
Claus ClausenMax, Pauls Freund- Ludwig AndersenDr. Moeller
Louis RalphProsnick, Hausverwalter
Hermann VallentinKommissar- Else HellerFrau Witt
Alexander MurskiHerr Witt- Hella HartwichDame beim Arzt
- Paul HenckelsDr. Meyer
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