''Christian Wahnschaffe'' is a 1920 German silent

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directed by

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and starring

Conrad Veidt Hans Walter Conrad Veidt ( , ; 22 January 1893 – 3 April 1943) was a German and British actor. He attracted early attention for his roles in the films ''Different from the Others'' (1919), ''The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari'' (1920), and ''The Man ...

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and

Fritz Kortner Fritz Kortner (born Fritz Nathan Kohn, 12 May 1892 – 22 July 1970) was an Austrian stage and film actor and theatre director. Life and career Kortner was born in Vienna as Fritz Nathan Kohn into a Jews, Jewish family. He studied at the Vien ...

. It was released in two parts ''World Ablaze'' (''Weltbrand'') in November 1920 and ''The Escape from the Golden Prison'' (''Die Flucht aus dem goldenen Kerker'') in March 1921. It is an adaptation of the novel of the same title by

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. The film is extant, and was restored in 2018 by the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung. The film's sets were designed by the

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Robert A. Dietrich Robert A. Dietrich (28 March 1889 – 8 September 1947) was a German art director.Scheunemann p.277 He designed the sets for more than a hundred films during his career. Selected filmography * ''The Student of Prague (1913 film), The Student of P ...

Cast

Part 1: World Ablaze

Part 2: The Escape from the Golden Prison

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* * 1920 films 1921 films Films of the Weimar Republic Films directed by Urban Gad German silent feature films 1920 drama films Silent German drama films Terra Film films German black-and-white films 1921 drama films 1920s German films Films scored by Giuseppe Becce {{1920s-Germany-silent-drama-film-stub