World by the Throat (German: Der Würger der Welt) is a 1920 German silent crime film directed by E. A. Dupont and starring Max Landa, Hanni Weisse and Ernst Rückert.

The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert A. Dietrich.

World by the Throat

Cast

Max Landa as detective

Hanni Weisse as Sonja

Leo Connard as Professor Georg Melville

Ernst Rückert as Mc Lean, his Assistant

Rosa Liechtenstein as Eugenie, his daughter

Arthur Bergen as Iwan Nedela, A Russian student

Edmund Löwe as Boris Alschkin, a nihilist

Leopold von Ledebur as Algernon Selkirk, the American sugar mogul

Erich Waldow as Barnes, mate of the detective

References

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Films of the Weimar Republic

Films directed by E. A. Dupont

German silent feature films

1920 crime films

German crime films

German black-and-white films

1920s German films

1920s German-language films

World by the Throat