Play Around a Man

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Play Around a Man
Directed by Robert Land
Written by Fanny Carlsen
Produced byGustav Schwab
Starring
Cinematography
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Merkur Film
Distributed by Deutsche First National Pictures
Release date
  • 1 October 1929 (1929-10-01)
CountryGermany
Languages

Play Around a Man (German : Spiel um den Mann) is a 1929 German silent film directed by Robert Land and starring Liane Haid, Anna Kallina, and Fred Louis Lerch. [1]

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The film's sets were designed by the art director Edgar G. Ulmer.

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References

  1. Isenberg, p. 15.

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