The film starts with a woman on the run from her millionaire husband giving birth to a daughter in the home of a washerwoman. The woman dies in childbirth, but the baby survives. The washerwoman leaves the baby in a horsedrawn Parisian taxicab (No. 13). The paperwork of the birth is lost in a huge tome. Sixteen years pass. The tome is bought by a poor student. One day his bookshelf collapses, and the tome opens at the page where the paperwork has been hidden. The student realises that the paperwork relates to a millionaire who has spent the last sixteen years looking for his pregnant wife. The student traces the washerwoman, and he tricks her into confessing what she has done with the baby. Meanwhile, the baby has been adopted by the cab driver and his wife, and has grown into Lili Damita.
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Lili Damita
Lilian
Also in
This Is the Night
The Woman Between
Jack Trevor
François Tapin
Also in
Secrets of a Soul
The Devious Path
Michael Curtiz
Alfred Schirokauer
Willy Schmidt-Gentner
Arnold Pressburger
Paul Biensfeldt
Jacques Carotin
Known for
Waxworks
Paul Leni
Xavier de Montépin
Walter Rilla
Lucien Rebout
Known for
Day of Anger
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Gustav Ucicky
Max Gülstorff
L'antiquaire
Known for
The Punch Bowl
Michael Curtiz Director · Alfred Schirokauer Writer Xavier de Montépin Author
First release March 6, 1926 · Produced in Austria, Germany · Production Phoebus-Film
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Sascha-Film
Production
Phoebus-Film
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Austria · Germany
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Original title
Fiaker Nr. 13
Original language
German
Release dates
Austria · March 6, 1926
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Denmark
March 22, 1926
Finland
May 8, 1926
Germany
March 18, 1926 · Berlin
Portugal
June 6, 1927
United Kingdom
January 17, 1927
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