Different from the Others (1919)

Director: Richard Oswald

Conrad Veidt plays a famous musician who is blackmailed for being gay. Eventually he stands trial and is convicted. At the end the film pleads for the abolition of §175 (the law that punishes homosexuality).

Cast

Conrad Veidt

Paul Körner

Anita Berber

Else Sivers

Magnus Hirschfeld

Doctor / Sexologist

Reinhold Schünzel

Franz Bollek

Fritz Schulz

Kurt Sivers

Leo Connard

Paul's Father

Ilse von Tasso-Lind

Paul's Mother

Ernst Pittschau

Paul's Brother

Wilhelm Diegelmann

Kurt's Father

Alexandra Wiellegh

Paul's Sister-in-law