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Dame Care (1928)

Dame Care poster
Original title
Frau Sorge
Directed by
Robert Land
Genre
silent film
Country
Germany
Runtime
2h 05m
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A family struggles with poverty and hardship in 19th century Germany. The story follows the mother as she tries to hold her household together.

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What happens

Dame Care (German: Frau Sorge) is a 1928 German silent drama film directed by Robert Land and starring Fritz Kortner, Mary Carr and William Dieterle. It is based on the 1887 novel Frau Sorge by Hermann Sudermann. It was shot at the Staaken Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Neppach. It was distributed by the German branch of First National Pictures. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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