Verlogene Moral AKA Torgus (1921)

1921 · Silent film · 64 min · dir. Hanns Kobe

• Drama

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Synopsis

John, a young man raised by his aunt, is in love with Anna, a servant girl who is going to have his baby. He is willing to marry her but his stern aunt wants him to marry a rich girl. To separate the lovers, she arranges for her nephew to be enrolled at a university in a distant town. She then has Anna sent away to live with Torgus the coffinmaker and his mother where she will be secluded until the birth of the child. Torgus, a golemesque sort of fellow, is immediately charmed by the beautiful…

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Details

Director

Hanns Kobe

Writer

Carl Mayer

Cinematography

Karl Freund

Studio

Centaur-Film GmbH

Released

1921-10-20

Original title

Verlogene Moral

Running time

64 minutes

Cast & crew

• HHanns Kobe Director
• GGerd Fricke
• FFerdinand Gregori
• Eugen Klöpfer
• Marija Leiko
• Käthe Richter
• Adele Sandrock
• HHermine Straßmann-Witt

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