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RUNTIME
Did you know
Tight 65-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
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Behind the Altar
1927 1h 5m DE
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MASTERPIECE
★10.0TMDB · 1
Drama
Synopsis
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Wilhelm Dieterle’s strong and manly art and Marcella Albani’s suave charm intermingle here in a splendid natural setting, to depict a drama where love and duty, compassion and hate, purity and crime merge together in a very interesting story.
“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”
Cast
William Dieterle
Der Abbé
Marcella Albani
Die Marchesa
Jeanne Helbling
Bianca
Hermann Picha
Beppo
Credits
Behind the camera
- Director
- William Dieterle
- Writers
- William Dieterle
- Languages
- No Language
- Countries
- Germany
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Cinephile deep dive
The take
William Dieterle directs. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in Germany. Dialogue in No Language.
Trivia
Things worth knowing
- 1Tight 65-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
- 299 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
- 3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
- 4William Dieterle and Marcella Albani and Jeanne Helbling carry the top of the cast.
- 5IMDB entry: tt0017923 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
- 6Only 1 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.
The technical file
- Runtime
- 65 min · 1h 5m
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- DE
Also by
William Dieterle
Production companies
Who made it
- CH
Charha-Film GmbH, Berlin
Key crew
Release history · US
When it landed
- Theatrical1927-12-08
