Different from the Others (1919)
May 28, 1919Release Date
Different from the Others (1919)
May 28, 1919Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Conrad Veidt
Paul Körner
Leo Connard
Körner's Father
Ilse von Tasso-Lind
Körner's Sister
Ernst Pittschau
Brother-in-Law
Fritz Schulz
Kurt Sivers
Wilhelm Diegelmann
Sivers' Father
Clementine Plessner
Sivers' Mother
Anita Berber
Else Sivers
Alexandra Wiellegh
Paul's Sister-in-law
Reinhold Schünzel
Franz Bollek
Richard Oswald
Director
Helga Molander
Frau Hellborn
Magnus Hirschfeld
Writer
Joachim Bärenz
Composer
Bernd Schultheis
Composer
Max Fassbender
Cinematographer
Stefan Drößler
Editor
Emil Linke
ProductionDesigner
Media.
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Different from the Others (German: Anders als die Andern) is a silent German melodramatic film produced during the Weimar Republic. It was first released in 1919 and stars Conrad Veidt and Reinhold Schünzel. The story was co-written by Richard Oswald and Magnus Hirschfeld, who also had a small part in the film and partially funded the production through his Institute for Sexual Science. The film was intended as a polemic against the then-current laws under Germany's Paragraph 175, which made homosexuality a criminal offense. It was one of the first sympathetic portrayals of gay men in cinema.Censorship laws were enacted in reaction to films like Anders als die Andern and by October 1920 only doctors and medical researchers could view it. Prints of the film were among the many "decadent" works burned by the Nazis after they came to power in 1933.
The cinematography was by Max Fassbender, who two years previously had worked on Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray, one of the earliest cinematic treatments of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. Director Richard Oswald later became a director of more mainstream films, as did his son Gerd. Veidt became a major film star the year after Anders was released, in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
The film's basic plot was used again in the 1961 UK film Victim, starring Dirk Bogarde.