The Story of Dida Ibsen (1918)
1h 32m
Running Time
December 12, 1918Release Date
The Story of Dida Ibsen (1918)
1h 32m
Running Time
December 12, 1918Release Date
Plot.
Dida Ibsen, daughter of impoverished farmers, has, according to her father's will, to marry the main creditor. But she refuses and decides to live with a married man as a mistress, till he gets his divorce. In the town she opens a restaurant with the money of her wealthy lover, from whom she soon gets pregnant, but their dreams of marriage fail, his wife refuses the divorce. After a while, she decides to marry one of the regular guests at her restaurant, van Galen, who spent quite some time in the tropics and because of this is at the brink of madness. Shortly after the marriage his condition worsens and life becomes hell for Dida.
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Details.
Release DateDecember 12, 1918
Original NameDida Ibsens Geschichte
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 32m
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
suicide
partially lost film
unplanned pregnancy
debt
unhappy marriage
malaria
Wiki.
The Story of Dida Ibsen (German: Dida Ibsens Geschichte) is a 1918 German silent drama film directed by Richard Oswald and starring Anita Berber, Conrad Veidt and Werner Krauss. It is an adaptation of Margarete Böhme's 1907 novel of the same title, a sequel to her best-known work The Diary of a Lost Girl. It was one of a series of enlightenment films made by Oswald during the period.