Very good drama, even in the fragmented version that has survived. Although it is a fictional story, it seems sometimes like an anthropological portrait of homosexuals (and a few lesbians seen in the café scene) during the 1910s. Conrad Veidt (who has been called the "most beautiful travestite of Berlin nights" in the 1910-20s) is very moving and convincing as the victim of the "hygienic society" in which he has to live, learn, and fight for his sexual orientation against the homophobic law that used to rule the lives of the "third sex", as homosexuals were called; and criminal harassment by common people. Worth a look.
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