The Story of Dida Ibsen(1918)

Name: The Story of Dida Ibsen
Director: Richard Oswald
Genre: Drama
Released: 1918-01-01
Duration: 92 min
Cast: Anita Berber, Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Emil Lind, Clementine Plessner

Anita Berber Werner Krauss Conrad Veidt Emil Lind Clementine Plessner

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.