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Va banque (1920)

Va banque poster
Directed by
Leo Lasko
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
Germany
Runtime
1h 54m
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A silent film from 1920 Germany about characters caught in high-stakes drama. The story plays out as a desperate gamble with the tensions of a criminal or romantic entanglement.

tensedramaticsomberclassicseriousold-fashioned

What happens

Va banque is a 1920 German silent drama film directed by Léo Lasko and starring Fritz Kortner, Edith Meller and Meinhart Maur. It premiered at the Marmorhaus in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Robert A. Dietrich and Robert Neppach. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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