''Morals at Midnight'' (german: Moral um Mitternacht) is a 1930 German
romance film
Romance films or movies involve romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theatres or on television that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate romantic involvement of the main characters. Typically their journey ...
directed by
Marc Sorkin and starring
Gustav Diessl
Gustav Diessl (30 December 1899 – 20 March 1948) was an Austrian artist, and film and stage actor.
Biography
Diessl was born Gustav Karl Balthasar Diessl in Vienna. In 1916, he was an extra on different stages in Vienna but was soon recruite ...
,
Camilla Horn and
Vladimir Sokoloff
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Sokoloff (russian: Влади́мир Алекса́ндрович Соколо́в; December 26, 1889 – February 15, 1962) was a Russian-American character actor of stage and screen. After studying theatre in Moscow, ...
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[Rentschler p. 277]
The film's sets were designed by
Heinrich Richter
Heinrich Richter (1884–1981) was a German painter and art director.Soister p.122 He designed the sets for more than a hundred films during his career.
Selected filmography
* '' The Confessions of the Green Mask'' (1916)
* '' The Sensational T ...
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Cast
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Gustav Diessl
Gustav Diessl (30 December 1899 – 20 March 1948) was an Austrian artist, and film and stage actor.
Biography
Diessl was born Gustav Karl Balthasar Diessl in Vienna. In 1916, he was an extra on different stages in Vienna but was soon recruite ...
as Brat, ein Gefangener
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Camilla Horn as Nelly Wendt
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Vladimir Sokoloff
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Sokoloff (russian: Влади́мир Алекса́ндрович Соколо́в; December 26, 1889 – February 15, 1962) was a Russian-American character actor of stage and screen. After studying theatre in Moscow, ...
as Ein Aufseher
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Karl Falkenberg
Karl Falkenberg (born Karl Franz Josef Falkenberg, 6 April 1887 – died after 1936) was a German-Jewish film actor.
Selected filmography
* ''Clown Charly'' (1918)
* ''Cain'' (1918)
* '' Blackmailed'' (1920)
* ''The Song of the Puszta'' (19 ...
as Zweiter Aufseher
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Michael von Newlinsky as Edgar, Nellys Freund
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Lya Lys
Lya Lys (born Nathalie Margoulis; May 18, 1908 – June 2, 1986) was a German-born American actress.
Biography
Lya Lys was born in Berlin on May 18, 1908U.S. Naturalization Records August 7, 1933 to a Russian banker and French pediatrician who ...
as Nora
* Drei Antonys as Drei Clowns
References
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1930 films
1930s romance films
Films of the Weimar Republic
German romance films
1930s German-language films
Films directed by Marc Sorkin
German black-and-white films
1930s German films
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