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The Hustler (1920 film)

1920 film directed by Emil Justitz

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ65052792 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Hustler (German: Der Falschspieler) is a 1920 German silent film directed by Emil Justitz and starring Anita Berber and Hans Albers.

Cast

In alphabetical order

Hans Albers as Harald Petersen

Marian Alma

Anita Berber as Tänzerin Asta

Ilse Götzen

Emil Mamelok as Falschspieler

Elisit Mörtstedt

Hans Mühlhofer

Max Neumann as Provinzler

Preben J. Rist

Carl Wilhelm Tetting

Anna von Palen as Mutter

References

Bibliography

Rolf Giesen. The Nosferatu Story: The Seminal Horror Film, Its Predecessors and Its Enduring Legacy. McFarland, 2019.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “The Hustler (1920 film)” as 1920 film directed by Emil Justitz. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Hustler, film and directed.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1920, 2019—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1920-12-13. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Hustler, film and directed providing the first useful test.
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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q65052792. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1920 and 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Hustler (1920 film)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.