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The Black Panther (1921)

The Black Panther poster
Original title
Die schwarze Pantherin
Directed by
Johannes Guter
Genre
silent film
Country
Germany
Runtime
1h 10m
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman gets caught up in romantic and social conflicts from a play. The story unfolds with heavy drama and theatrical acting.

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What happens

The Black Panther (German: Die schwarze Pantherin) is a 1921 German silent film directed by Johannes Guter and starring Yelena Polevitskaya, Xenia Desni and Eugen Burg. The film was produced by Russo Film, a small production outfit associated with Decla-Bioscop, which had been set up to produce films based on literature. The film was adapted from a play by Volodymyr Vynnychenko. It premiered on 14 October 1921 at a Decla cinema on the Unter den Linden. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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