Her Sport

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Her Sport
Directed by Rudolf Biebrach
Written by Robert Wiene
Produced by Oskar Messter
Starring Henny Porten
Cinematography Willy Gaebel
Edited by Wally Koch
Music by Giuseppe Becce
Production
company
Distributed by UFA
Release date
  • 12 April 1919 (1919-04-12)
Running time
72 minutes
CountryGermany
Languages Silent
German intertitles

Her Sport (German: Ihr Sport) is a 1919 German silent comedy film directed by Rudolf Biebrach and starring Henny Porten, Georg H. Schnell and Hermann Thimig. A man-hating young woman tries to break up her friend's new marriage, but while in the Alps she meets her own ideal man. [1]

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It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin.

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  1. Jung & Schatzberg p. 37

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