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Das Doppelgesicht (1917)

Das Doppelgesicht poster
Directed by
Alfred Halm
Genre
drama film, romance film
Country
German Empire
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A silent German melodrama from 1917. It follows a double role for Friedrich Zelnik and a woman transformed like Eliza Doolittle. The film is about love and identity in a straightforward, early cinema style.

silentromanticmelodramaticpoignantdatedrestrainedstraightforward

What happens

Das Doppelgesicht ist ein deutsches Stummfilm-Liebesmelodram von 1917 mit Friedrich Zelnik in einer Doppelrolle und Hanni Weisse als eine deutsche Eliza Doolittle. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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