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
Production
company
Release date
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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