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Backstairs is a Allemand film of genre Drama directed by Paul Leni with Henny Porten

Backstairs (1921)

Hintertreppe

Backstairs
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Length 40minutes
Directed by
OriginGerman
Genres Drama,    Thriller
Rating67% 3.371663.371663.371663.371663.37166

Hintertreppe (German: Backstairs) was a 1921 silent film. This was the first movie by German director Leopold Jessner, in cooperation with Paul Leni. The film was later criticized for overemphatic acting and contrived poses. Hintertreppe was a precursor of the 1920s German kammerspielfilm style.

Synopsis

A crippled postman (Fritz Kortner) adores a woman (Henny Porten), who is in love with another man (William Dieterle), leading the postman to try to destroy the relationship by murdering the woman's love interest.

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Henny Porten

(Das Dienstmädchen)William Dieterle

(Der Handwerker)Fritz Kortner

(Der Postbote)
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