Veidt portrays a successful violinist, Paul Körner, who falls in love with one of his male students. A sleazy See more

The film opens with Paul Körner (Conrad Veidt), a successful violinist reading the daily newspaper obituaries, which are filled with vaguely worded and seemingly inexplicable suicides. Körner, however, knows that Paragraph … See more

The film arose in a time where there was no national film censorship in Germany.
The film was premiered on May 28, 1919 in a special performance at the Berlin Apollo-Theater and then on May 30, 1919 at the Prinzeß-Th… See more