We continue our series of Henny Porten film specials with postcards by Ross Verlag. Today, the silent comedy Liebe und Diebe/Love and Thieves (Carl Froehlich, 1928) in which she once again played a double role. Her co-star was Anton Pointner.
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 92/1. Photo: Alex Schmoll, Berlin / Henny Porten-Froehlich Produktion. Henny Porten in Liebe und Diebe (Carl Froehlich, 1928).
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 92/2. Photo: Alex Schmoll, Berlin / Henny Porten-Froehlich Produktion. Henny Porten in a double role in Liebe und Diebe (Carl Froehlich, 1928).
In Liebe und Diebe/Love and Thieves (Carl Froehlich, 1928), Henny Porten plays Baroness Anna von Belling, who is staying in a posh Wiesbaden hotel, when her jewelry, valuable diamonds, are stolen.
The Baroness personally pursues the thief but is promptly mistaken for an impostor whom the police have long sought. Taken into custody, Ms. von Belling is only released when her own uncle confirms her identity.
The hotel guest who, in their eyes, has made himself particularly suspicious, turns out to be a detective and her stolen jewelry proves to be fake. As if by coincidence, the real thief Anna Magdalena Kaludrigkeit, internally called 'Brillanten-Anna' (also Porten), appears.
'Brillanten-Anna' has just returned from a thief tour and has a striking resemblance to her noble namesake. After all the confusion, Baroness Anna and the police commissioner von Langen (Anton Pointner), who handled the case, get closer and get married.
Other actors in the film were Kurt Gerron, Paul Bildt, Adolphe Engers, Karl Geppert, Oreste Bilancia, Hubert von Meyerinck, and Ellen Kürti. Liebe und Diebe was scripted by Walter Wassermann and Fred Sauer, and cinematographed by Gustav Preiss. Sets were designed by Franz Schroedter, while Porten's husband Wilhelm von Kaufmann was the production manager. The film was shot in November-December 1927 and premiered on 8 March 1928 at the famous Ufa-Palast am Zoo.
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 92/3. Photo: Alex Schmoll, Berlin / Henny Porten-Froehlich Produktion. Henny Porten in Liebe und Diebe (Carl Froehlich, 1928).
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 92/4. Photo: Alex Schmoll, Berlin / Henny Porten-Froehlich Produktion. Anton Pointner and Henny Porten in Liebe und Diebe (Carl Froehlich, 1928).
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 92/5. Photo: Alex Schmoll, Berlin / Henny Porten-Froehlich Produktion. Henny Porten and Anton Pointner in Liebe und Diebe (Carl Froehlich, 1928).
Sources: Wikipedia (German and English), and IMDb.
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 92/1. Photo: Alex Schmoll, Berlin / Henny Porten-Froehlich Produktion. Henny Porten in Liebe und Diebe (Carl Froehlich, 1928).
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 92/2. Photo: Alex Schmoll, Berlin / Henny Porten-Froehlich Produktion. Henny Porten in a double role in Liebe und Diebe (Carl Froehlich, 1928).
A thief called Brillanten-Anna
In Liebe und Diebe/Love and Thieves (Carl Froehlich, 1928), Henny Porten plays Baroness Anna von Belling, who is staying in a posh Wiesbaden hotel, when her jewelry, valuable diamonds, are stolen.
The Baroness personally pursues the thief but is promptly mistaken for an impostor whom the police have long sought. Taken into custody, Ms. von Belling is only released when her own uncle confirms her identity.
The hotel guest who, in their eyes, has made himself particularly suspicious, turns out to be a detective and her stolen jewelry proves to be fake. As if by coincidence, the real thief Anna Magdalena Kaludrigkeit, internally called 'Brillanten-Anna' (also Porten), appears.
'Brillanten-Anna' has just returned from a thief tour and has a striking resemblance to her noble namesake. After all the confusion, Baroness Anna and the police commissioner von Langen (Anton Pointner), who handled the case, get closer and get married.
Other actors in the film were Kurt Gerron, Paul Bildt, Adolphe Engers, Karl Geppert, Oreste Bilancia, Hubert von Meyerinck, and Ellen Kürti. Liebe und Diebe was scripted by Walter Wassermann and Fred Sauer, and cinematographed by Gustav Preiss. Sets were designed by Franz Schroedter, while Porten's husband Wilhelm von Kaufmann was the production manager. The film was shot in November-December 1927 and premiered on 8 March 1928 at the famous Ufa-Palast am Zoo.
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 92/3. Photo: Alex Schmoll, Berlin / Henny Porten-Froehlich Produktion. Henny Porten in Liebe und Diebe (Carl Froehlich, 1928).
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 92/4. Photo: Alex Schmoll, Berlin / Henny Porten-Froehlich Produktion. Anton Pointner and Henny Porten in Liebe und Diebe (Carl Froehlich, 1928).
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 92/5. Photo: Alex Schmoll, Berlin / Henny Porten-Froehlich Produktion. Henny Porten and Anton Pointner in Liebe und Diebe (Carl Froehlich, 1928).
Sources: Wikipedia (German and English), and IMDb.
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