White Slave Traffic

White Slave Traffic
Directed by	Jaap Speyer
Written by	Lothar Knud Frederik ; Paul Rosenhayn ; E. Sulke
Starring	Rudolf Klein-Rogge ; Erich Kaiser-Titz ; Fritz Alberti
Music by	Hans May
Cinematography	Paul Holzki
Production; company	Liberty-Film
Distributed by	Süd-Film
Release date	1926
Country	Germany
Language	Silent ; German intertitles

White Slave Traffic (German: Mädchenhandel - Eine internationale Gefahr) is a 1926 German silent thriller film directed by Jaap Speyer and starring Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Erich Kaiser-Titz and Fritz Alberti. When a Berlin nightclub worker moves to Budapest to take up a job that has been arranged for her, she finds herself being kidnapped by white slave traffickers. She is eventually rescued from a brothel in Athens. The film opened with a warning from a group committed to combating white slavery, but the film's sensationalist tone provoked controversy. In Britain it was refused a licence by the British Board of Film Censors although it is possible it had some private screenings. One contemporary review described it as "crude melodrama on an unpleasant subject".[1]

Cast

Rudolf Klein-Rogge as Simpat Karamanian, Arut Akkunian, ein deutscher Professor, ein asiatischer Hausierer und Dr. Papamarkos
Erich Kaiser-Titz as Polizeihauptmann von Budapest
Fritz Alberti as Justizminister
Charles Lincoln as Geza Farkacz
Wera Engels as Irene Wendtland
Frau Szlikay as Frau Generalin von Dingolstaedt
Trude Hesterberg as Meta Pohlmann
Mary Kid as Ida Schulz
Wilhelm Diegelmann as Vater Schulz
Sophie Pagay as Mutter Schulz
Paul Rehkopf as Sylviani
Mira Hildebrand as Margarete
Kurt Gerron as Direktor des Purpur-Paradieses
Maria Forescu as Eine menschenfreundliche Frau
Mia Pankau as Aranka von Erdödyi

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References

Robinson p.31-32

Bibliography

Robertson, James Crighton. The Hidden Cinema: British Film Censorship in Action, 1913-1975. Routledge, 1993.

External links

White Slave Traffic on IMDb

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[1] Robinson p.31-32