Der weiße Dämon

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  • Genre: Feature film / Extract
  • Année: 1932
  • Durée: 07:02 min
  • Description: The video shows the first five minutes of the film. Film synopsis: Heini Gildemeister returns to Hamburg after a long stay in South America. When he sees his sister Gerda again at home, he is horrified. She is weak and ill, and yet the singer is supposed to start a tour to Paris the next day in this condition. Heini immediately notices that something is wrong and learns from the doctor that his sister is addicted to cocaine. However, she does not tell him who is the source of her dope. He does everything in his power to prevent her departure, but time and again the people behind the drug gang succeed in separating the two of them. When he finally manages to get her to a sanatorium in Paris, he also manages to have the gang busted. He and Gerda's friend Dora return to Hamburg as victors and allies for life.
    "Der weiße Dämon" was digitized by Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung as part of the film heritage funding program "Förderprogramm Filmerbe" (FFE) in 2022. filmportal.de, the central internet platform for German cinema and a department of DFF - Deutsches Filminstitut und Filmmuseum, documents the progress and results of "Förderprogramm Filmerbe", which is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the German federal states and the German Federal Film Board. The first five minutes of feature-length films digitized with funding from the FFE are presented on filmportal.de to document the successful completion of the respective project.
  • Fournisseur: Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung
  • Droits: In Copyright / Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung
  • Société de production: Universum-Film AG (UFA) (Berlin)
  • Director: Kurt Gerron
  • Language: de