A Woman's Revenge (1921 film)

A Woman's Revenge
A Woman's Revenge
Directed by	Robert Wiene
Written by	Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly (novella) ; Robert Wiene
Produced by	Paul Ebner ; Maxim Galitzenstein
Starring	Vera Karalli ; Franz Egenieff ; Olga Engl ; Margarete Kupfer
Cinematography	Erich Waschneck
Production; company	Maxim-Film
Distributed by	UFA
Release date	April 1921;
Country	Germany
Languages	Silent ; 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]

Cast[edit]

Vera Karalli
Franz Egenieff - Herzog von Sierra-Leone
Olga Engl
Margarete Kupfer
Alfred Haase
Boris Michailow - Geliebter der Herzogin
Auguste Prasch-Grevenberg

References[edit]

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

Bibliography[edit]

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

External links[edit]

A Woman's Revenge at IMDb

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[1] Jung & Schatzberg p.88-89

[2] Jung & Schatzberg p.91-92

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v t e Films directed by Robert Wiene
1910s	He This Way, She That Way (1914) The Canned Bride (1915) Frau Eva (1916) The Queen's Love Letter (1916) The Queen's Secretary (1916) The Wandering Light (1916) The Robber Bride (1916) Lehmann's Honeymoon (1916) The Man in the Mirror (1917) Life Is a Dream (1917) Steadfast Benjamin (1917) Fear (1917)
1920s	The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) The Three Dances of Mary Wilford (1920) Genuine (1920) The Night of Queen Isabeau (1920) Panic in the House of Ardon (1920) A Woman's Revenge (1921) Playing with Fire (1921) The Infernal Power (1922) Raskolnikow (1923) The Doll Maker of Kiang-Ning (1923) I.N.R.I. (1923) The Hands of Orlac (1924) Boarding House Groonen (1925) The Guardsman (1925) Der Rosenkavalier (1926) The Queen of Moulin Rouge (1926) The Mistress (1927) The Famous Woman (1927) The Woman on the Rack (1928) Leontine's Husbands (1928) The Great Adventuress (1928) Folly of Love (1928)
1930s	The Other (1930) The Prosecutor Hallers (1930) The Love Express (1931) Venetian Nights (1931) Panic in Chicago (1931) Typhoon (1933) A Night in Venice (1934) Ultimatum (1938)