Nju - Eine unverstandene Frau (Husbands or Lovers) (1927)
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The European mentality of this German silent was a bit racy for mainstream American tastes of the era; nevertheless, the images created by director Paul Czinner told this story well. A wife (Elizabeth Bergner) is bored by her overweight slob of a husband (Emil Jannings). She gives in to the… More The European mentality of this German silent was a bit racy for mainstream American tastes of the era; nevertheless, the images created by director Paul Czinner told this story well. A wife (Elizabeth Bergner) is bored by her overweight slob of a husband (Emil Jannings). She gives in to the temptation of a slickly seductive poet (Conrad Veidt). The cuckolded husband (a common role for Jannings) tries to convince the pair to stop the philandering, but the wife runs off with her lover anyway. The lover shortly grows tired of her (just as the husband predicted he would) and dumps her. Without either her lover or her husband, the desperate woman throws herself off a cliff. Although Husbands or Lovers was not released in the U.S. until 1927, it was filmed in 1924, before Jannings came to America to make his mark on films there. In European release it was called Nju, which was the Bergner character's name. ~ Janiss Garza, Rovi
- Directed By
- Paul Czinner
- Written By
- Paul Czinner, Ossip Dymow
- Genres
- Romance
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Cast
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Emil Jannings
as The Husband
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Elisabeth Bergner
as The Wife
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Conrad Veidt
as The Lover
- Maria Bard
- Nils Edwall
