World by the Throat explained

World by the Throat
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Director:	E. A. Dupont
Starring:	Max Landa Hanni Weisse Ernst Rückert
Cinematography:	Charles Paulus
Studio:	Stern-Film
Country:	Germany
Language:	Silent German intertitles

World by the Throat (German: Der Würger der Welt) is a 1920 German silent crime film directed by E. A. Dupont and starring Max Landa, Hanni Weisse and Ernst Rückert.^[1]

The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert A. Dietrich.

Cast

• Max Landa as detective
• Hanni Weisse as Sonja
• Leo Connard as Professor Georg Melville
• Ernst Rückert as Mc Lean, his Assistant
• Rosa Liechtenstein as Eugenie, his daughter
• Arthur Bergen as Iwan Nedela, A Russian student
• Edmund Löwe as Boris Alschkin, a nihilist
• Leopold von Ledebur as Algernon Selkirk, the American sugar mogul
• Erich Waldow as Barnes, mate of the detective

Notes and References

1. Book: Grange, William. William Grange. Cultural Chronicle of the Weimar Republic. Scarecrow Press. 2008. Lanham, MD. 57. 081085967X. 2008008116.