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1919 | B/N | 50 min

Conrad Veidt portrays a successful musician who meets a handsome young man at a costume ball and begins a sexual relationship with him, only to have the young man blackmail him with threats that he will expose him as a homosexual. Koerner eventually refuses to continue making the blackmail payments and comes out publicly as gay. But because of society?s prejudices, his career is ruined, and he is driven to suicide


Country: Alemania
Direction: Oswald; Richard
Script: Oswal; Richard, Hirschfeld; Magnus
Production: Oswal; Richard
Photography: Fassbende; Max
Music: Bärenz; Joachim
Cast:Connard; Leo, Willegh; Alexandra, Pittschau; Ernst, Schulz; Fritz, Diegelmann; Willhelm, Berber; Anita, Schünzel; Reinhold, Molander; Helga, Hirschfeld; Magnus, Veidt; Conrad, Giese; Karl
Participation year at FICM: 2006

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