Let There Be Light (1917 film)
1917 film
- Ewald André Dupont
- Richard Oswald
- Lupu Pick
- Bernd Aldor
- Hugo Flink
- Nelly Lagarst
Production
company
company
Richard-Oswald-Produktion
Release date
- 2 March 1917 (1917-03-02)
- Silent
- German intertitles
Let There Be Light (German: Es werde Licht!) is a 1917 German silent drama film directed by Richard Oswald and starring Bernd Aldor, Hugo Flink and Nelly Lagarst.[1] It was followed by three sequels. The film was a protest against Germany's anti-abortion law,[2] and also touched on the dangers of syphilis.[3] It is a lost film.
The film's sets were designed by the art director August Rinaldi. Manfred Noa was employed as an artistic consultant.
Cast
- Bernd Aldor as Georg Mauthner, Arzt
- Hugo Flink as Paul Maunther, Maler, Georgs Bruder
- Nelly Lagarst as Assistantin
- Ernst Ludwig as Stadtrat Kaufherr
- Leontine Kühnberg as Else, dessen Tochter
- Lupu Pick as Dr. Franzius, annoncierender Arzt
- Max Gülstorff as Patient
- Kurt Vespermann as Gerd
- Kathe Oswald as Ingeborg
- Conrad Veidt as Herr Kramer
References
- ^ Kreimeier p. 44
- ^ Rogowski, Christian (2010). The Many Faces of Weimar Cinema: Rediscovering Germany's Filmic Legacy. ISBN 9781571134295.
- ^ Linge, Ina (2018). "Sexology, Popular Science and Queer History in Anders als die Andern (Different from the Others)". Gender & History. 30 (3): 595–610. doi:10.1111/1468-0424.12381. PMC 6282845. PMID 30546198.
Bibliography
- Kreimeier, Klaus (1999). The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918–1945. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-22069-0.
External links
- Let There Be Light at IMDb
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The films of Richard Oswald
- The Iron Cross (1914)
- Ivan Koschula (1914)
- The Silent Mill (1914)
- Laugh Bajazzo (1915)
- The Vice (1915)
- Tales of Hoffmann (1916)
- A Night of Horror (1916)
- The Uncanny House (1916)
- The Sea Battle (1917)
- The Lord of Hohenstein (1917)
- Let There Be Light (1917)
- The Picture of Dorian Gray (1917)
- The Story of Dida Ibsen (1918)
- Jettchen Gebert's Story (1918)
- Diary of a Lost Woman (1918)
- Henriette Jacoby (1918)
- The House of Three Girls (1918)
- Die Arche (1919)
- Different from the Others (1919)
- Prostitution (1919)
- Peer Gynt (1919)
- Around the World in Eighty Days (1919)
- Unheimliche Geschichten (1919)
- Figures of the Night (1920)
- Kurfürstendamm (1920)
- The Merry-Go-Round (1920)
- Manolescu's Memoirs (1920)
- Lady Hamilton (1921)
- The Golden Plague (1921)
- The House in Dragon Street (1921)
- The Love Affairs of Hector Dalmore (1921)
- Lucrezia Borgia (1922)
- Carlos and Elisabeth (1924)
- Semi-Silk (1925)
- The Wife of Forty Years (1925)
- Rags and Silk (1925)
- Should We Be Silent? (1926)
- When I Came Back (1926)
- We Belong to the Imperial-Royal Infantry Regiment (1926)
- The White Horse Inn (1926)
- Assassination (1927)
- Radio Magic (1927)
- Agitated Women (1927)
- The Transformation of Dr. Bessel (1927)
- Lützow's Wild Hunt (1927)
- A Crazy Night (1927)
- The Green Alley (1928)
- Villa Falconieri (1928)
- Spring Awakening (1929)
- The Mistress and her Servant (1929)
- Marriage in Trouble (1929)
- Cagliostro (1929)
- The Hound of the Baskervilles (1929)
- Dreyfus (1930)
- Vienna, City of Song (1930)
- Alraune (1930)
- The Tender Relatives (1930)
- 1914 (1931)
- Schubert's Dream of Spring (1931)
- Poor as a Church Mouse (1931)
- Victoria and Her Hussar (1931)
- The Captain from Köpenick (1931)
- Countess Mariza (1932)
- Unheimliche Geschichten (1932)
- The Flower of Hawaii (1933)
- A Song Goes Round the World (1933)
- Adventures on the Lido (1933)
- My Song Goes Round the World (1934)
- When You're Young, the World Belongs to You (1934)
- Bleeke Bet (1934)
- Storm over Asia (1938)
- Isle of Missing Men (1942)
- The Lovable Cheat (1949)
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