Plot.

A lawyer strongly argues against the abolition of the death penalty at a congress and is supposed to repeat his lecture in Rio de Janeiro. At the ocean crossing he meets a beautiful woman and falls in love with her so that he wants to kill a detective who persecutes her for murder first and after failure of this attack sacrifices his entire fortune to save her. Arrived in Rio, he fights for the abolition of the death penalty and learns that the beloved woman is not a murderer, but an actress who has played a comedy for him to heal him from his hardship. She then becomes his wife.

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Cast & Crew.

Lil Dagover

June Orchard

Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur

James Rigdon

Hans Mierendorff

Senator Jensen

Käthe von Nagy

Georg Baselt

William Pitt

Jean Murat

Wilhelm Thiele

Director / Writer

Werner Scheff

Writer

Victor Colani

Erster Offizier

George Froeschel

Novel

Jaro Fürth

Monteur Jank

Gertrud Eysoldt

Janks Frau

Willy Schmidt-Gentner

Music

Lilian Weiß

Mimi

Karl Puth

Director of Photography

Details.

Release Date
November 7, 1927

Status
Released

Genres
Drama

Last updated: 2023-11-12

Wiki.

Attorney for the Heart (German: Der Anwalt des Herzens) is a 1927 German silent romance film directed by Wilhelm Thiele and starring Lil Dagover, Jean Murat, and Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur. The film's sets were designed by the art director Alexander Ferenczy.