Different from the Others (1919)
May 28, 1919Release Date
Different from the Others (1919)
May 28, 1919Release Date
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
Conrad Veidt
Paul Körner
Magnus Hirschfeld
Doctor / Sexologist / Writer
Reinhold Schünzel
Franz Bollek
Fritz Schulz
Kurt Sivers
Leo Connard
Paul's Father
Ilse von Tasso-Lind
Paul's Mother
Ernst Pittschau
Paul's Brother
Wilhelm Diegelmann
Kurt's Father
Alexandra Wiellegh
Paul's Sister-in-law
Clementine Plessner
Kurt's Mother
Anita Berber
Else Sivers / Else, Kurt's Sister
Richard Oswald
Director / Writer / Producer
Helga Molander
Frau Hellborn
Emil Linke
Production Design
Max Fassbender
Director of Photography
Joachim Bärenz
Composer
Media.
Details.
Release DateMay 28, 1919
Original NameAnders als die Andern
StatusReleased
Running Time51m
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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.