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The Rat (1918)

The Rat poster
Original title
Die Ratte
Directed by
Harry Piel
Genre
silent film, crime film
Country
Germany
Runtime
1h 12m
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This is a German silent crime film. It follows a detective as he investigates a case. The story is part of a series of detective films.

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What happens

The Rat (German: Die Ratte) is a 1918 German silent crime film directed by Harry Piel and Joe May and starring Heinrich Schroth, Olga Engl and Käthe Haack. It was part of the series of Joe Deebs detective films. It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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