Cocaine [Cocain] (Original double weight publicity photograph from the 1921 film)

  • Berlin: N.p., 1921
By Ursel Renate Hirt, Ernst Pittschau, Gustav Adolf Semler (starring); Willi Schaeffers (director); Robert Heymann, Erich Kraft (screenwriters)
Berlin: N.p., 1921. Vintage borderless double weight publicity photograph from the lost 1921 German film, showing actress Ursel Renate Hirt slouched in a chair on the down slope of a cocaine binge.

Insignia of photographer Alexander Binder from the negative at the bottom right corner the recto, with Binder's stamp and a printed mimeo snipe on the verso.

Noted portrait and film photographer Alexander Binder studied photography in Munich before relocating to Berlin, where he captured images of many of Europe's early stars of the burgeoning film industry.

Willi Schaeffers' first and only directorial effort.

9 x 6.5 inches. Very Good plus, lightly age toned.

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