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The veil begins with the familiar story of a troubled love affair. Dudow employs an inconspicuous, didactic method, which is his corresponding exactly filmmaking “recipe.” The film’s heroes are exclusively female, as opposed to more typical films which look out for to cast heroic roles to male characters.
Four women, Barbara, Anni, Renate and Isa are looking for cheerfulness, as they embark on new lives in post-war Berlin. Unfortunately, they are all destined to be undone by the womanizer Cony, and subsequently waste themselves in a labyrinth of love.
The young student Barbara falls deeply in love with Conny; Anni becomes charged by him him, and Renate is driven to thievery due to her mad love for him. Conny, however, chooses to couple with aristocrat Isa von Trauwald and enjoys the pampered life of the high society, which makes the situation even more captivating …
At the time of its original release, the 104-mins flick picture show hit the German cinema box
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Best-selling German movie from the 1950's highlights heroic women
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Paul Wegener
German actor, writer and film director Paul Wegener (1874-1948) is one of the true fathers of the horror and fantasy genre, particularly remembered for his three silent films centred around the Jewish legend of the Golem. Wegener was one of the pioneers of the German cinema who realized the potential of the new medium and used the possibilities of cinematic trick photography as a method for presenting fantastic tales in a serious matter.
German postcard by Ross Verlag, nr. 2014/1, 1927-1928. Photo: Metro-Golwyn-Mayer (MGM)/Fanamet. (The FaNaMet company was one of the cooperations in Europe of the First National Pictures Corporation, Metro-Golwyn-Mayer company and the Paramount Famous Lasky Cooperation, It was located in Austria and till 1928 in former Yugoslavia. Another cooperation was the Parufamet in Germany).
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Paul Wegener was born in 1874 in in the West Prussian village of Arnoldsdorf, Germany (today Jarantowice, Poland) to Anna Wolff and Otto Wegener. He grew up on his father's estate Bischdorf in Ermland before he was sent to Rössel in 1883, and later to Königsberg, to attend secondary school. As a school boy Wegener already appeared on stage as an extra at Königsberger Stadttheater which began his life-long devotion to the stage. After finishing school in 1894, he started to study law in Freiburg (Breisgau) and in Leipzig but dropped out of university already one year later to start a career as an actor. He set off for Berlin to make his stage debut at the Stadt Nurnberg. He toured the provinces, until he appeared in the film Die Byzantier/The Byzantines (1905, Victor Hahn). The film's premier was seen by a talent-scout for Max Reinhardt of the Deutschen Theater. Reinhardt himself saw Wegener in a production of Maxim Gorky's The Lower Depths in Hamburg and took him to his distinguished theatre company...
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