Masks

About Masks

Masks is a 1929 German silent crime film directed by Rudolf Meinert and starring Karl Ludwig Diehl, Trude Berliner and Marcella Albani. It was the second film made by Meinert featuring the detective hero Stuart Webbs following The Green Monocle (1929). It was shot at the Grunewald Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art director Hermann Warm.

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Masks (German: Masken) is a 1929 German silent crime film directed by Rudolf Meinert and starring Karl Ludwig Diehl, Trude Berliner and Marcella Albani. It was the second film made by Meinert featuring the detective hero Stuart Webbs following The Green Monocle (1929). It was shot at the Grunewald Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art director Hermann Warm.

Cast

Karl Ludwig Diehl as Stuart Webbs

Trude Berliner as Mary

Marcella Albani as Elyane

Charles Willy Kayser as Bankier Clifford

Hans Schickler as Jankins

Jean Murat as Jonny

Betty Astor as Goldelse

Borwin Walth as Kommissar Black

Gerhard Dammann as Wirt Pitt

Oskar Homolka as Breitkopf

Robert Klein-Lörk as Charly

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Notable quotes

“Young people, who are still uncertain of their identity, often try on a succession of masks in the hope of finding the one which suits them — the one, in fact, which is not a mask.”
— W. H. Auden, Forewords and Afterwords, "One of the Family", p. 369 (1973).
“Fire is to represent truth because it destroys all sophistry and lies; and the mask is for lying and falsehood which conceal truth.”
— Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), X Studies and Sketches for Pictures and Decorations, as translated by Edward MacCurdy.
“It's a terrible thing to be alone — yes it is — it is — but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath — as terrible as you like — but a mask.”
— Katherine Mansfield, in a letter to her future husband, John Middleton Murry (July 1917), published in The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, Vol. I.
“I'm not questioning your powers of observation, I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is.”
— "V" in V for Vendetta (2006); based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore.
“To perceive pure love that is God, you have to unmask your heart, unmask your soul, unmask the purity of your being.”
— Tapan Kumar Pradhan in
“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
— The Critic as Artist (May 1891), written by Oscar Wilde

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