
Release Date
Original Release
December 12, 1918
1h 32m
The Story of Dida Ibsen (1918)
Overview
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.
Director

Richard Oswald
Department: Directing
Cast

Anita Berber
Dida Ibsen

Werner Krauss
Philipp Galen

Conrad Veidt
Erik Norrensen
Emil Lind
Unknown
Clementine Plessner
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Ernst Pittschau
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Eugen Rex
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Ilse von Tasso-Lind
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Maria Forescu
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