''Playing with Destiny'' (german: Das Spiel mit dem Schicksal) is a 1924 German
silent film
A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, when ...
directed by
Siegfried Philippi and starring
Alfred Abel,
Sascha Gura and
Claire Rommer.
[Bock & Bergfelder p. 2]
The film's sets were designed by the
art director
Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film and television, the Internet, and video games.
It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and unify the visi ...
Robert A. Dietrich.
Cast
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Alfred Abel as Albert Unna
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Sascha Gura as Eva Loray
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Olga Engl
Olga Engl (30 May 1871 – 21 September 1946) was an Austrian- German stage and motion picture actress who appeared in nearly 200 films.
Biography
Engl was privately educated in an Ursuline monastery and began her acting career at the Prague ...
as Alberts Mutter
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Claire Rommer as Elena
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Margarete Kupfer
Margarete Kupfer (born Margarete Kupferschmid; 10 April 1881 – 11 May 1953) was a German actress.
Partial filmography
* ''The Canned Bride'' (1915)
* '' Frau Eva'' (1916)
* '' The Queen's Secretary'' (1916)
* '' When Four Do the Same'' (1917) ...
as Mittenzweys Freundin
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Vera Skidelsky as Beider Tochter
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Charles Willy Kayser as Friedrich Bessel
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Fritz Schulz as Heinrich Höther
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Rudolf Lettinger
Rudolf Lettinger (26 October 1865 in Hamburg – 21 March 1937 in Berlin-Schöneberg) was a German stage and film actor. He made his stage debut in 1883 when he played the role of Kosinsky in Friedrich Schiller's drama ''The Robbers''. Some of ...
as Ortsgeistlicher
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Jakob Tiedtke
Jakob Karl Heinrich Wilhelm Tiedtke (23 June 1875 – 30 June 1960) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 190 films between 1914 and 1955.
Selected filmography
* '' The Pied Piper of Hamelin'' (1918)
* '' The Doll'' (1919)
* ' ...
as Redakteur Mittenzwey
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Frida Richard as Dessen Frau
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Leopold von Ledebur
Leopold von Ledebur (18 May 1876 – 22 August 1955) was a German stage and film actor.
Selected filmography
* ''Carmen'' (1918)
* '' The Serenyi'' (1918)
* ''Midnight'' (1918)
* '' The Foolish Heart'' (1919)
* '' The Golden Lie'' (1919)
* '' ...
as Theaterdirektor
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Hermann Picha
Hermann Picha (20 March 1865 – 7 June 1936) was a German stage and film actor. Picha was extremely prolific, appearing in over 300 short and feature films during the silent and early sound eras. Picha played a mixture of lead and supportin ...
as Jerusalem
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Fritz Beckmann
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Paul Rehkopf
Paul Anton Heinrich Rehkopf (21 May 1872 – 29 June 1949) was a German actor.
He was born in Braunschweig and died in Braunschweig, Germany
Selected filmography
* '' Diary of a Lost Woman'' (1918)
* '' Film Kathi'' (1918)
* '' Lorenzo Burghardt ...
References
Bibliography
* Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009.
* Gerhard Lamprecht. ''Deutsche Stummfilme, Volume 8''.
External links
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1924 films
Films of the Weimar Republic
German silent feature films
Films directed by Siegfried Philippi
German black-and-white films
1920s German films
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