Backstairs

Backstairs — Plot

In a poor neighborhood of a big city, a crippled mailman is in love with a maid who lives in his building. However, she is in love with a wealthy and handsome young man, who soon disappears. The mailman provides the maid with letters that get her hopes up... but tragedy will soon befall all three.

• Release date
• December 11, 1921
• Runtime
• 50 min
• Genres
• Mystery, Drama, Thriller
• Director
• Leopold Jessner

Backstairs — Cast

Henny Porten The Maid Fritz Kortner The Postman William Dieterle The Lover

E

Eugene Dieterle (Uncredited)