The Story of Dida Ibsen

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.

Country:

Germany

Genre:

Drama

Duration:

92 minutes

Year:

1918

Director:

Richard Oswald

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Company:

Richard Oswald Produktion

Cast:
Anita Berber

Dida Ibsen

Werner Krauß

Philipp Galen

Conrad Veidt

Erik Norrensen

Emil Lind

Clementine Plessner

Crew:
Richard Oswald

Director

Margarete Böhme

Novel

Richard Oswald

Writer

August Rinaldi

Production Design

Richard Oswald

Producer