''Circumstantial Evidence'' (German: ''Indizienbeweis'') is a 1929

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silent

crime film Crime film is a film belonging to the crime fiction genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and fiction. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine with many other genres, such as Drama (film and television), dr ...

directed by

Georg Jacoby Georg Jacoby (23 July 1882 – 21 February 1964) was a German film director and screenwriter.Profile
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and starring

Fritz Alberti Fritz Alberti (born Friedrich Wilhelm Alberti; 22 October 1877 – 15 September 1954) was a German actor. Selected filmography * ''People in Ecstasy'' (1921) * ''The Other Woman (1924 film), The Other Woman'' (1924) * ''The Blackguard'' (1925) * ...

Ruth Weyher Ruth Weyher (28 May 1901 – 27 January 1983) was a German film actress of the silent era. She appeared in 60 films between 1920 and 1930. She starred in the 1926 film ''Secrets of a Soul'', which was directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst. Selected f ...

Valy Arnheim Valy Arnheim (born Valentin Theodor Woldemar Appel; 8 June 1883 – 11 November 1950) was a German film actor and director. Selected filmography * '' Lightning Command'' (1921) * '' Anne-Liese of Dessau'' (1925) * '' Harry Hill's Deadly Hunt'' ( ...

and Henry Edwards. It is based on the 1886 novel ''

Vendetta Vendetta may refer to: * Feud or vendetta, a long-running argument or fight Film * ''Vendetta'' (1919 film), a film featuring Harry Liedtke * ''Vendetta'' (1950 film), an American drama produced by Howard Hughes * ''Vendetta'' (1986 film), an ...

'' by

Marie Corelli Mary Mackay (1 May 185521 April 1924), also called Minnie Mackey and known by her pseudonym Marie Corelli (, also , ), was an English novelist. From the appearance of her first novel '' A Romance of Two Worlds'' in 1886, she became a bestselli ...

. Countess Romani grows bored of her life in

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and wishes to go elsewhere. It is also known by the

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''Vendetta''. It premiered on 15 February 1929.

Cast

as Countess Romani *

Olaf Fjord Olaf Fjord (born Ämilian Maximilian Pouch; 3 August 1897 – 19 April 1945) was an Austrian actor, film director and film producer. Selected filmography * '' Der Herzog von Reichstadt'' (1920) * '' Monna Vanna'' (1922) * '' The Ragpicker of Par ...

as Georges * Henry Edwards as Count Fabio Romani *

Suzy Vernon Suzy Vernon (1901–1997) was a French film actress.Powrie p.178 Vernon was born Amelie Paris in Perpignan in Southern France. She began her screen career in 1923 during the silent era and went on to appear in just under fifty films. She generall ...

as Maria Ferrat *

Inge Landgut Inge Landgut (23 November 1922 – 29 May 1986) was a German child actress. She is probably best-remembered for playing Pony Hütchen in ''Emil and the Detectives'' and as the child murder victim Elsie Beckmann in Fritz Lang's classic '' M'', bo ...

as Stella *

Hilde Jennings Hilde Jennings (born Elisabeth Hildegard Rogge; 21 December 1906 – unknown) was a German film actress. She was married to Soviet Union film director Mikhail Iosifovich Dubson. Selected filmography * '' The Brigantine of New York'' (1924) * '' ...

as Zofe der Gräfin *

Bernd Aldor Bernd Aldor (23 March 1881 – 20 October 1950) was a German stage and film actor. Aldor was a leading star of German cinema during the 1910s and 1920s. He appeared regularly in the films of Richard Oswald and Lupu Pick, often in detective thril ...

as alter Diener *Félix P. Soler as Hassan Salem *

as Gerichtspräsident *Paul Nikolaus as Prosecutor *

Max Neufeld Max Neufeld (13 February 1887 – 2 December 1967) was an Austrian film director, actor and screenwriter. He directed 70 films between 1919 and 1957. He directed the 1934 film ''The Song of the Sun'', which starred Vittorio De Sica. Selecte ...

as Defense lawyer *Otto Kronburger as Kommissar *

as Detektiv *

Karl Elzer Karl Conrad Elzer (2 August 1881 – 30 August 1938) was a German film actor. Elzer was born in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany and died in Rottach-Egern, Bavaria, Germany at age 57. Selected filmography * '' The Robber Bride'' (1916) * '' ...

as Oberkellner

References

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* Films of the Weimar Republic 1929 crime films German crime films German silent feature films Films directed by Georg Jacoby Films based on British novels Films based on works by Marie Corelli Films set in Corsica German black-and-white films 1920s German films 1920s German-language films German-language crime films {{1920s-Germany-silent-crime-film-stub