The Story of Dida Ibsen (1918)
Dida Ibsens Geschichte (original title)

Cast

Cast overview:
	Anita Berber	...	Dida Ibsen
	Conrad Veidt	...	Erik Norrensen
	Werner Krauss	...	Philipp Galen
	Emil Lind	...	Vater Ibsen
	Clementine Plessner	...	Frau Ibsen
	Ernst Pittschau	...	Eken Kornils
	Eugen Rex	...	Lude Schnack
	Ilse von Tasso-Lind	...	Dame
	Maria Forescu	...	Dienerin
	Loni Nest	...	Didas Tochter

Storyline

Dida Ibsen, daughter of impoverished farmers, has, according to her father's will, to marry the main creditor. But she refuses and decides to live with a married man as a mistress, till he gets his divorce. In the town she opens a restaurant with the money of her wealthy lover, from whom she soon gets pregnant, but their dreams of marriage fail, his wife refuses the divorce. After a while, she decides to marry one of the regular guests at her restaurant, van Galen, who spent quite some time in the tropics and because of this is at the brink of madness. Shortly after the marriage his condition worsens and life becomes hell for Dida. Written by Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>  

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