
Overview
While staying with her aunt at a fashionable spa, Else receives an unexpected telegram from her mother, begging her to save her father from debtor’s jail. The only way out, it seems, is to approach an elderly acquaintance in order to borrow money from him. Through this telegram, Else is forced into the reality of a world entirely at odds with her romantic imagination – with horrific consequences.
Fun facts
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Setting
Set in Vienna
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Karl Freund
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Carl MayerWriter
- Arthur SchnitzlerNovel
- Paul CzinnerWriter
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- March 7, 1929
- Original language
- German
- Countries
- Germany































