The director and co-writer Lupu Pick plays musician Erik Paulsson, who loses his beloved son after a peaceful yet critical poetry reading is raided by the tsarist forces. Paulsson, beside himself with grief, kills the officer responsible and is sentenced to life, which will mean 18 years in prison before he is free again. While he is inside, by a strange quirk of fate, his daughter Karin falls in love with writer Sebald Brückner, the son of the state prosecutor, who indicted Paulsson and is a staunch advocate of the death penalty. The conflict between the fathers does not impair the relationship of the young couple. However, when Sebald’s long-desired success on the stage is threatened by a vengeful theatre director who had sexually harassed Karin, he is enraged and kills the other man in a fight. The prosecutor now must face the blow of losing his own son to the death penalty.
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Lupu Pick
Erik Paulsson
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Spies
Edith Posca
Karin
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Johannes Riemann
Sebald
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The City without Jews
Oh, These Men
Fritz Schulz
Known for
Different from the Others
Albert Patry
Brückner
Also in
Johann Baptiste Lingg
Das begrabene Ich
Eduard Rothauser
Lundt
Also in
Manon Lescaut
Assassination
Bernhard Goetzke
Known for
Destiny
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
Rudolf Klein-Rhoden
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Die Geschwister Barelli
Intoxication
Paul Biensfeldt
Known for
Waxworks
Emilie Kurz
Known for
The Last Laugh
Paul Rehkopf
Known for
Destiny
Lupu Pick Director · Gerhard Lamprecht Screenplay Ivar Petersen Cinematographer
First release January 1, 1919 · Produced in Germany · Original title Tötet nicht mehr!
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Rex-Film GmbH
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Germany
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Original title
Tötet nicht mehr!
Original language
German
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No dialogue
Release dates
Germany · January 1, 1919
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