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RUNTIME
Did you know
Tight 54-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
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Cast
Ressel Orla
Carl de Vogt
Carl Gerhard Schröder
Paul Morgan
Eduard Eysenck
Credits
Behind the camera
- Director
- Fritz Lang
- Writers
- Fritz Lang
- Languages
- No Language
- Countries
- Germany
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Fun facts 🍿
Cinephile deep dive
The take
Fritz Lang directs. Carl Hoffmann behind the camera. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in Germany. Dialogue in No Language.
Trivia
Things worth knowing
- 1Tight 54-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
- 2107 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
- 3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
- 4Directed by Fritz Lang, shot by Carl Hoffmann. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
- 5Ressel Orla and Carl de Vogt and Carl Gerhard Schröder carry the top of the cast.
- 6IMDB entry: tt0010203 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
- 7Only 1 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.
The technical file
- Cinematography
- Carl Hoffmann
- Runtime
- 54 min · 0h 54m
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- DE
Also by
Fritz Lang
Production companies
Who made it
- DE
Decla Film Gesellschaft Holz & Co.
DE
Key crew
- ProducerErich Pommer
Release history · US
When it landed
- Theatrical1919-04-03
