Women Who Shouldn't Get Married (1919)
The doctor Ada Haller pursues a successful career as a scientist, in which she comes more and more into conflict with her marriage and the role expected by society as a woman. An extremely progressive and conventional film at the same time, which takes up modern themes and shows parallels to the life of the leading actress: Esther Carena, real name Franziska Lucia Pfeiffer, studied medicine for a semester before she came to film through acrobatics and pantomime; after their marriage in 1924, she withdrew from an extremely successful silent film career into private life.
Director: Eugen Illés
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Esther Carena as Ada Haller |
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Blandine Ebinger as Emmi |
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Marga Köhler as Julia Haller |
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Sigmund Aschenbach as Carl Wanninger |
| Directing | Eugen Illés | Director |
| Writing | Alfred Mayer-Eckhardt | Writer |
| Camera | Eugen Illés | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Eugen Illés | Writer |
| Writing | Edmund Edel | Writer |