White Slave Traffic
White Slave Traffic (German: Mädchenhandel - Eine internationale Gefahr) is a 1926 German silent thriller film directed by Jaap Speyer and starring Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Erich Kaiser-Titz and Fritz Alberti. When a Berlin nightclub worker moves to Budapest to take up a job that has been arranged for her, she finds herself being kidnapped by white slave traffickers. She is eventually rescued from a brothel in Athens. The film opened with a warning from a group committed to combating white slavery, but the film's sensationalist tone provoked controversy. In Britain it was refused a licence by the British Board of Film Censors although it is possible it had some private screenings. One contemporary review described it as "crude melodrama on an unpleasant subject".[1]
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| Directed by | Jaap Speyer |
| Written by | Lothar Knud Frederik Paul Rosenhayn E. Sulke |
| Starring | Rudolf Klein-Rogge Erich Kaiser-Titz Fritz Alberti |
| Music by | Hans May |
| Cinematography | Paul Holzki |
Production company | Liberty-Film |
| Distributed by | Süd-Film |
Release date | 1926 |
| Country | Germany |
| Language | Silent German intertitles |
Cast
- Rudolf Klein-Rogge as Simpat Karamanian, Arut Akkunian, ein deutscher Professor, ein asiatischer Hausierer und Dr. Papamarkos
- Erich Kaiser-Titz as Polizeihauptmann von Budapest
- Fritz Alberti as Justizminister
- Charles Lincoln as Geza Farkacz
- Wera Engels as Irene Wendtland
- Frau Szlikay as Frau Generalin von Dingolstaedt
- Trude Hesterberg as Meta Pohlmann
- Mary Kid as Ida Schulz
- Wilhelm Diegelmann as Vater Schulz
- Sophie Pagay as Mutter Schulz
- Paul Rehkopf as Sylviani
- Mira Hildebrand as Margarete
- Kurt Gerron as Direktor des Purpur-Paradieses
- Maria Forescu as Eine menschenfreundliche Frau
- Mia Pankau as Aranka von Erdödyi
References
- Robinson p.31-32
Bibliography
- Robertson, James Crighton. The Hidden Cinema: British Film Censorship in Action, 1913-1975. Routledge, 1993.