---
title: 'Different from the Others (1919)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Richard Oswald'
released: '1919-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 50
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'Germany'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/different-from-the-others-1919'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0009878/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Different from the Others (1919)

1919 · 50 min · Drama · Germany

Original title: Anders als die Andern

## Synopsis

Different from the Others is a silent German melodramatic film produced during the Weimar Republic. It was first released in 1919 and stars Conrad Veidt and Reinhold Schünzel. It was directed by Richard Oswald, and the story co-written by Oswald and Magnus Hirschfeld, who also had a small part in the film and partially funded the production through his Institute for Sexual Science. The film was intended as a polemic against the then-current laws under Germany's Paragraph 175, which made homosexuality a criminal offense. It was one of the first sympathetic portrayals of gay men in cinema.

## Credits

- **Screenplay:** [Magnus Hirschfeld](https://cinepixo.com/people/magnus-hirschfeld), [Richard Oswald](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-oswald)
- **Director:** [Richard Oswald](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-oswald)
- **Producer:** [Richard Oswald](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-oswald)
- **Director of Photography:** [Max Fassbender](https://cinepixo.com/people/max-fassbender)
- **Editor:** [Stefan Drößler](https://cinepixo.com/people/stefan-dro-ler)

## Cast

- [Conrad Veidt](https://cinepixo.com/people/conrad-veidt)
- [Clementine Plessner](https://cinepixo.com/people/clementine-plessner)
- [Magnus Hirschfeld](https://cinepixo.com/people/magnus-hirschfeld)
- [Wilhelm Diegelmann](https://cinepixo.com/people/wilhelm-diegelmann)
- [Reinhold Schünzel](https://cinepixo.com/people/reinhold-schunzel)
- [Leo Connard](https://cinepixo.com/people/leo-connard)
- [Fritz Schulz](https://cinepixo.com/people/fritz-schulz)
- [Ernst Pittschau](https://cinepixo.com/people/ernst-pittschau)
- [Ilse Tasso](https://cinepixo.com/people/ilse-tasso)
- [Anita Berber](https://cinepixo.com/people/anita-berber)
- [Helga Molander](https://cinepixo.com/people/helga-molander)

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