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A Woman's Revenge (1921 film)

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A Woman's Revenge
Directed byRobert Wiene
Written byJules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly (novella)
Robert Wiene
Produced byPaul Ebner
Maxim Galitzenstein
StarringVera Karalli
Franz Egenieff
Olga Engl
Margarete Kupfer
CinematographyErich Waschneck
Production
company
Distributed byUFA
Release date
  • April 1921 (1921-04)
CountryGermany
LanguagesSilent
German intertitles

A Woman's Revenge (German: Die Rache einer Frau) is a 1921 German silent drama film directed by Robert Wiene and starring Vera Karalli, Franz Egenieff and Olga Engl. In order to punish her cold, brutal aristocratic husband for murdering her lover, a woman becomes a common prostitute to shame him.[1] The film received largely negative reviews.[2]

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References

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  1. ^ Jung & Schatzberg p.88-89
  2. ^ Jung & Schatzberg p.91-92

Bibliography

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  • Jung, Uli & Schatzberg, Walter. Beyond Caligari: The Films of Robert Wiene. Berghahn Books, 1999.
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