White Slave Traffic

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

References

Bibliography

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

External links

• White Slave Traffic at the Internet Movie Database