Different from the Others
1919Conrad Veidt plays a famous musician who is blackmailed for being gay. Eventually he stands trial and is convicted. At the end the film pleads for the abolition of §175 (the paragraph which punishes homosexuality).
Acted in
Conrad Veidt
as Paul Körner
Anita Berber
as Else Sivers
Magnus Hirschfeld
as Doctor / Sexologist
Reinhold Schünzel
as Franz Bollek
Fritz Schulz
as Kurt Sivers
Leo Connard
as Paul's Father
Ilse von Tasso-Lind
as Paul's Mother
Ernst Pittschau
as Paul's Brother
Wilhelm Diegelmann
as Kurt's Father
Alexandra Wiellegh
as Paul's Sister-in-law
Clementine Plessner
as Kurt's Mother
Anita Berber
as Else, Kurt's Sister
Helga Molander
as Frau Hellborn