Modern Vices (film)

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Modern Vices
Directed byLeopold Niernberger
Written byLeopold Niernberger
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Production
company
Staatliche Filmstelle
Release date
  • 4 January 1924 (1924-01-04)
CountryAustria
Languages Silent
German intertitles

Modern Vices (German: Moderne Laster) is a 1924 Austrian silent drama film directed by Leopold Niernberger and starring Nora Gregor, Annemarie Steinsieck and Hugo Werner-Kahle. It is part of the tradition of silent era enlightenment films, which blended a mixture of documentary-style realism and melodrama in portrayals of social problems such as drugs. [1]

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It is also known by the alternative title of Narkotica.

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  1. Von Dassanowsky p.38

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