The Other () is a 1930 German drama film directed by Robert Wiene and starring Fritz Kortner, Käthe von Nagy and Heinrich George. It was based on the 1893 play Der Andere by Paul Lindau but it is very likely that Wiene was influenced by its first screen adaptation, released in 1913. It was shot at the Terra Studios in Berlin.Jung & Schatzberg p. 153 A French-language version titled The Prosecutor Hallers was shot by Wiene immediately afterwards in the same Berlin studio, but with different actors.
Plot
Cast Fritz Kortner as Prosecutor Hallers Käthe von Nagy as Analie Frieben Heinrich George as Dickert Hermine Sterler as Hallers Schwester Ursula van Diemen as Marion Eduard von Winterstein as Dr. Koehler Oskar Sima as Gruenspecht Julius Falkenstein as Sekretaer Bremer Paul Bildt as Prof. Wertmann Otto Stoessel as Medizinalrat Rienhofer Emil Heyse as Polizeikommissar Hans Ahrens as Wachtmeister
Release The film premiered in Berlin at the Capitol on August 12, 1930.
Reception Ernst Bloch extensively analysed the differences between the 1913 and the 1930 and their social context.
The similarities between the plot and Stevenson's Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde have been noted.
The film was also described as one the "first auteur films about the doppelgänger motif".
See also The Other (1913) The Haller Case (1933), an Italian remake
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