''Assassination'' (german: Feme) is a 1927
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silent thriller film
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directed by
Richard Oswald and starring
Eduard Rothauser
Eduard Rothauser (1876–1956) was an Austrian-born German actor.
Selected filmography
* '' The Man in the Cellar'' (1914)
* ''The Princess of Urbino'' (1919)
* '' Nobody Knows'' (1920)
* '' The Graveyard of the Living'' (1921)
* '' The Mahara ...
,
Mathilde Sussin
Mathilde Sussin (21 September 1876 – 2 August 1943) was an Austrian actress.
Sussin was born in Vienna into a Jewish family and died in 1943 at Theresienstadt concentration camp in Czechoslovakia.
Selected filmography
* ''The Black Tulip ...
and
Hans Stüwe. It was adapted from a novel by
Vicki Baum
Hedwig "Vicki" Baum (; he, ויקי באום; January 24, 1888 – August 29, 1960) was an Austrian writer. She is known for the novel ''Menschen im Hotel'' ("People at a Hotel", 1929 — published in English as ''Grand Hotel''), one of he ...
.
[Hake p. 39] It was shot at the
EFA Studios in
Berlin
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. The film's
art direction
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was by
Gustav A. Knauer.
Cast
References
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1927 films
Films of the Weimar Republic
1920s thriller films
German silent feature films
German thriller films
Films directed by Richard Oswald
Films based on Austrian novels
German black-and-white films
Silent thriller films
1920s German films
Films shot at Halensee Studios
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