The Devil's Pawn (1922)
Douban
黄色通行证
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Der Gelbe Schein
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The Yellow Ticket
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Zólty paszport
director:
Eugen Illés
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Victor Janson
playwright:
Hans Brennert
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Hanns Kräly
actor:
Pola Negri
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Adolf E. Licho
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Harry Liedtke
genre:
Short
region:
Germany
language:
German
length: 47m
release date: 1922
IMDb: tt0157534
Der Gelbe Schein
overview
Der Gelbe Schein was shot at the end of WW I in a partly Jewish neighbourhood in Warsaw, the so called Nalevsky-Quarters. Poland still was occupied by German troops at that time. Parts of the movie were filmed at the Ufa-Union-Ateliers in Berlin Tempelhof though.
Der Gelbe Schein was planned as propagandistic movie against the Russian Empire of the Czar. But it premiered not before the 22nd of November 1918 when the empire had collapsed already. Today Der Gelbe Schein is an early example of a movie featuring a studied woman as heroine while being in the same time the spectacular case of a German Propaganda-Film with a philosemitistic message.