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Dir: Georg Jacoby

A lawyer blackmails a society lady about her past. Will the Joker come to her rescue?

Dir: Georg Jacoby

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Liebe im Rausch perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Lilian Lee arrives in Japan to take over a tea plantation that has been left to her. She is befriended by a tea planter, Kent, and arouses the desire of a Chinese man with a Western education, Fu Chow. This man ruins Kent's crops and then boldly declares his feeling for Lilian, at which the Englishman orders him out. Nevertheless, Fu Chow manages to persuade Lilian to come to his house. In protecting herself she stabs him. Kent stands by her at her trial, and she becomes his wife. Kent's young manager makes love to her and, thinking Kent does not actually love her, she agrees to go with him. Kidnapped, she is about to suffer nameless degradation when Kent rescues her, proving his love is genuine.

Dir: Georg Jacoby

Sentimental story of a woman who couldn't have a child but falls in love later, at a nurse job, with a baby her wayward husband had with a neighbor girl.

Dir: Georg Jacoby

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Mother Love perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Theodore Reibeth, a medical student, is introduced to Mlle. Aut Nissen in a moving picture studio where she is taking one of the leading roles. He is attracted to her by her unusual beauty and charm. Circumstances later make it possible for him to see her frequently at her home, and he falls in love with her. Mlle. Nissen is very fond of animals and has in her apartments a private collection of lions which she shows to him. Reibeth's graduation is at hand when he receives a letter from his brother telling him that through unfortunate investments their fortune has been lost. In this predicament Mlle. Nissen comes to his aid and lends him enough money to finish his studies, which he accepts and graduates with high honors. Later at a reception Reibeth sees Mlle. Nissen flirting with another man. He protests very strongly and the controversy causes a rupture which separates them. Years pass and he almost forgets the celebrated actress. His wedding announcement in one of the papers, however, comes to the attention of Mlle. Nissen who asks him to call. He does so and the old love returns. His faith in his former love is still so great that he allows himself to be blindfolded by her and led into one of the lower portions of the house. When he tears the blindfold from his eyes he discovers he is in the den of lions. With death in a terrible form almost upon him he manages to escape. Mlle. Nissen seeing him free makes her own life a penance for the tragic deed she had planned.

Dir: Georg Jacoby

A young married couple is on vacation in Ostend, where they meet a world-famous tenor who immediately begins to make advances to the young woman. The flattered woman believes in great love and is ready to leave her husband. But when she learns that the famous tenor is only interested in a short adventure, she wants to kill herself.

Dir: Georg Jacoby

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of In the Lion's Den perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Georg Jacoby

A woman of the Latin Quarter, who has had numerous love affairs, flees from the wild life of Paris to bury her past in self-exile in South America.

Dir: Georg Jacoby

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Frauen am Abgrund perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Georg Jacoby

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Georg Jacoby

In Corsica, Marianna Paoli's brother is killed by an Englishman whose identity is unknown to her. She swears vengeance and tracks the killer to Monte Carlo. There she falls in love with a handsome young officer, only to discover that he is the murderer she has sworn to punish.