Frontstairs and Backstairs

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Frontstairs and Backstairs
Directed by Urban Gad
Screenplay byUrban Gad
Based on Honour by Hermann Sudermann
Starring Asta Nielsen
Cinematography Karl Freund
Axel Graatkjær
Guido Seeber
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  • 1915 (1915)
CountryGermany
LanguagesSilent
German intertitles

Frontstairs and Backstairs (German:Vordertreppe und Hintertreppe) is a 1915 German silent film directed by Urban Gad and starring Asta Nielsen and Paul Otto. [1] It is based on the 1889 play Honour by Hermann Sudermann. [2]

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References

  1. Kapczynski & Richardson p.47
  2. "Verfilmungen" (in German). Hermann Sudermann Stiftung. Retrieved 2016-03-08.

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