Alkohol (1920)

Directed by

Alfred Lind, Ewald André Dupont

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 36m

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A German silent film about the dangers of alcohol. It follows characters whose lives are affected by drinking.

melodramaticseriousold-fashionedslow-burnmoralisticdidacticstaged

What happens

Alkohol ('Alcohol') is a 1919 German silent drama film directed by Ewald André Dupont and Alfred Lind and starring Wilhelm Diegelmann, Ernst Rückert, and Georg H. Schnell. The film was begun by Lind but finished by Dupont. It was his first major melodrama, and represented a breakthrough in his career. The film's theme and setting foreshadow much of his later work. It was one in a series of "Enlightenment films" examining social issues, which were produced around the time. It premiered at the Marmorhaus in Berlin. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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