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Children of No Importance (1926)

Children of No Importance poster
Original title
Die Unehelichen
Directed by
Gerhard Lamprecht
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
Germany
Runtime
1h 36m
Rating
6.1 of 10 from 8 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A German silent film looks at the difficult lives of illegitimate children in the 1920s. It follows their struggles with poverty, prejudice, and the search for a place in society.

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What happens

Children of No Importance or The Illegitimate (German: Die Unehelichen) is a 1926 German silent drama film directed by Gerhard Lamprecht and starring Bernhard Goetzke, Margarete Kupfer and Elsa Wagner. It was part of the series of Enlightenment films produced in Weimar Germany, examining social issues such as illegitimate children. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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