Little Angel
6.3
Engelein is a comedy of deliberately mistaken identity. If Jesta, a 17-year-old, can play the part of a 12-year-old, her family will gain a large inheritance from a rich uncle from Chicago. Her unruly “play-acting” for the uncle is preceded by an earlier incident in the film that results in Jesta being evicted from her girl’s school. Wearing a long, woman’s skirt, she climbs up a ladder and onto a thatched roof. She reaches over the top of the wall to kiss her boyfriend, who appears from the other side. However, Jesta is caught by the headmistress, and her forced descent is precipitous. Pulled downward, she reveals a great deal of a black-stockinged leg. She looks distinctly sexual as she falls into the matrimonly arms of the law, whose duty is to enforce the rules of female decorum.
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Cast
9 people
Asta Nielsen
Jesta
Known for
Joyless Street
Alfred Kühne
Redakteur Schneider
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Max Landa
Peter J. Schneider
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The Suffragette
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Fred Immler
Theodor Schiebstaedt (as Fredy Immler)
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Madame DuBarry
The Devil's Church
Bruno Kastner
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Die schwarze Loo
Fear
Hanns Kräly
Hauslehrer
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Pinkus's Shoe Palace
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Adele Reuter-Eichberg
Meta Schiebstaedt
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Martin Wolff
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Erner Huebsch
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Harakiri
The Plague of Florence
Urban Gad Director · Karl Freund Cinematographer Guido Seeber Cinematographer
First release January 3, 1914 · Produced in Germany · Original title Engelein
Production
Projektions-AG Union
Production
Germany
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Languages
Original title
Engelein
Original language
German
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
Germany · January 3, 1914
Theatrical · Premiere
No release date listed for United States.
Denmark
February 12, 1914 · Theatrical
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