Evening – Night – Morning

• Gertrude Welcker: Maud, a lady of the demimonde
• Conrad Veidt: Brilburn, Maud's brother
• Bruno Ziener: Cheston, a rich gentleman, Maud's lover
• Otto fee: Ward, a Detective
• Carl von Balla: Prince, a player

Evening - Night - Tomorrow is a German crime film directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau from 1920.

Action

Maud and her brother Brilburn want to exclude the rich Cheston. Cheston buys for them an expensive pearl necklace, which he displays around the evening at his club. In order to protect the chain from thieves, he locks her in the evening in a safe. If you try to steal this player Prince, surprised him Cheston, who is then strangled by Prince. As Brilburn who has the same idea and comes too late, finds the body and is also surprised, he 's the prime suspect. However, Detective Ward finds the real culprits on the basis of tobacco crumbs.

Background

The film was shot in the studios of Lixie studios in Berlin- Weissensee and produced by the company Helios. Erstverleiher was the Decla - Bioscope rental GmbH, Berlin. For the buildings Neppach Robert was responsible. The film had a length of five acts of 1700 and 1713 meters ( about 94 minutes) and 105 intertitles.

The kingdom of film censorship took him on September 6, 1920 ( No. 385 ) with a youth ban. The premiere took place in the Decla - light games Unter den Linden or on September 24, 1920 on September 17, 1920. The film is considered as not received.

Murnau known not to his work as a director, because he was not named in the credits. The film criticism of his time praised the film for its elegant furnishings and cleverly used light and shadow.