Different From the Others (Anders als die Andern) - 1919

I was vaguely aware of it, never seen it, unfortunately there's only bits of it left. This is one thing I would actually love to see a remake of. Such a cool house too in the first scene, and a cute couple too

Hope the rest of it turns up someday although it seems unlikely now

I didn’t realize Jeremy Irons was that old, or even German!

I've seen it and I've also seen paint dry.

One shouldn't confuse the tedious "Different From the Others" of 1919) with the equally tedious "Mikaël, Chained: The Story of the Third Sex" from 1924.

Conrad Veidt lived an interesting life and was a good man. Probably bi.

R4 - I like Mikaël, but then director Carl Theodor Dryer is an acquired taste.

I guarantee that if Carl Theodor Dryer were alive today he would disown this creaky, primitive, pantomimic, century-old relic of juvenilia.

OP wow, thanks for posting this.

Yes, I saw it several years ago. It stars Conrad Veidt, who played Cesare, the creature in The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari, and the villain, Major Strasser, in Casablanca.

Fun fact: Reinhold Schunzel (the villainous blackmailer of "Anders") directed Joan Crawford's worst movie at MGM, "Ice Follies of 1939." As well as the first VICTOR UND VICTORIA (33).

We're lucky to have at least 50 minutes of an otherwise "lost" film.

There is only 1 copy of this film that exists

Not any more, R11.

It can be pirated by anyone now it has been broadcast on Youtube.

They look like a couple of lebkuchen sniffers.

[quote] Conrad Veidt

He escaped Germany and had a decade of well-deserved stardom in England before coming coming to America and dying too soon.

The two best ones were 'Dark Journey' opposite the fabulously-dressed Vivien Leigh.

The better one was 'Contraband' (AKA 'The Spy in Black') which is an extremely efficient clever drama in the Hitchcock style.

It's an extremely well-crafted movie which shows how much movie-making had progressed from the archaic relic in this thread's title.

The message of this movie was way ahead of its time. There's another gay-themed German film from that era (made by young William Dieterle, before he moved to Hollywood) called SEX IN CHAINS. Unfortunately that movie is pretty homophobic. I bought the DVD and realized how misleading the cover art is after watching the film: it makes it look like the two men on it are showing affection to each other when in reality it's a still from the movie where some pervy guy is trying to molest his sleeping cellmate in prison.

^ Cool, they made a movie about prison sex

Yes. It was revolutionary.

I remember those days!

R5 He wasn't handsome but he appeared in some important films.

It wasn't produced by Germany's for profit film industry, rather as a propaganda/educational/argument film, and funded by Berlin's progressive sexuality research institute: Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, 1919 to 1933. Of course this film was amateur hour, its the nature of the genre. 1919 is usually named the first year of German Expressionism and the Kraut were soon making timelessly great movies.

Dieterle, 20 years later, directed THE ACCUSED. Prim, sexually repressed psychology professor Loretta Young fends off her rape-y student (hot Douglas Dick) by killing him in self-defense. Dieterle shoots the attack in primo German Expressionistic style.

He took on controversial sexual themes in both Berlin and Hollywood.

The Nazis would try to shut down showings of the film

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William Dieterle went on to produce this masterpiece.

Which contained a chilling performance from (the anti-gay) Sir Cedric Hardwicke.

It also contained a wonderfully sympathetic portrayal from (gay) Charles Laughton.

And a brilliant score by Alfred Neumann incorporating themes from Hungarian gypsy culture and Dvorak

The violinist was really smelling the cookies!

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