''The Chain Clinks'' () is a 1923 German

silent film A silent film is a film without 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, w ...

directed by Paul L. Stein and starring

Ressel Orla Ressel Orla (born Theres Anna Ochs; 18 May 1889 – 23 July 1931) was an Austrian stage and film actress. She appeared in some of Fritz Lang's earliest films. Selected filmography * '' The Firm Gets Married'' (1914) * ''The Queen's Secretary'' ( ...

, Alfons Fryland, and

Grete Diercks Margarete "Grete" Diercks (September 1, 1890, in Hamburg – July 15, 1978, in Lauingen) was a German actress. Biography Diercks had been active since childhood as an actress at the 1900 Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. On her 11th birthday, ...

. The film's sets were designed by the

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Fritz Lederer.

Cast

* Alfons Fryland *

Kurt Brenkendorf Kurt Brenkendorf (born Benno Kurt Bockenheuser; 13 June 1882 – 10 September 1944) was a German stage and film actor.Grange p.256 Selected filmography *''The Mexican'' (1918) * '' Victim of Society'' (1919) * ''The Prisoner'' (1920) * '' Deceive ...

Leonhard Haskel Leonhard Haskel (7 April 1872 – 30 December 1923) was a German stage and film actor and drama teacher. Haskel was born in Seelow, in the Prussian Province of Brandenburg, and died in Berlin. Selected filmography * '' Europe, General Deliver ...

*Hans Merkwitz *Ursula Nest *

Frida Richard Frida Richard (born Friederike Raithel, 1 November 1873 – 12 September 1946) was an Austrian actress. She was a prolific actress in both the silent and sound eras. Selected filmography * ''The Sin of Helga Arndt'' (1916) * '' The Queen's Lov ...

Fritz Richard Fritz Richard (born Josef Richard Löwit; 17 November 1869 – 9 February 1933) was an Austrian actor and theatre director. Fritz Richard was born as Josef Richard Löwit in Chotěboř, Austria-Hungary into a Jewish family. Richard trained as a ...

Eduard Rothauser Eduard Rothauser (1876–1956) was a Hungarian-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 ...

Walter Steinbeck Walter Steinbeck (26 September 1878 – 27 August 1942) was a German film actor. Steinbeck was born in Niederlößnitz (now Radebeul), Saxony, Germany. He died at age 63 in Berlin, Germany. Selected filmography * '' The Romance of a Poor Sin ...

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* Films of the Weimar Republic German silent feature films Films directed by Paul L. Stein German black-and-white films 1920s German films {{1920s-Germany-silent-film-stub