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The Story of Dida Ibsen (1918)

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.

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Anita BerberDida Ibsen
Werner KraussPhilipp Galen
Conrad VeidtErik Norrensen
Emil Lind
Clementine Plessner
Ernst Pittschau
Eugen Rex
Ilse von Tasso-Lind
Maria Forescu

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