White Slave Traffic

White Slave Traffic (German: Mädchenhandel – Eine internationale Gefahr, lit. 'Trafficking in girls – an international threat') is a 1926 German silent thriller film directed by Jaap Speyer and starring Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Erich Kaiser-Titz, and Fritz Alberti. When a Berlin nightclub worker moves to Budapest to take up a job that has been arranged for her, she finds herself being kidnapped by white slave traffickers. She is eventually rescued from a brothel in Athens. The film opened with a warning from a group committed to combating white slavery, but the film's sensationalist tone provoked controversy. In Britain it was refused a licence by the British Board of Film Censors although it is possible it had some private screenings. One contemporary review described it as a "crude melodrama on an unpleasant subject".

White Slave Traffic
Directed by	Jaap Speyer
Written by	Lothar Knud Frederik Paul Rosenhayn E. Sulke
Starring	Rudolf Klein-Rogge Erich Kaiser-Titz Fritz Alberti
Cinematography	Paul Holzki
Music by	Hans May
Production company	Liberty-Film
Distributed by	Süd-Film
Release date	1926 (1926)
Country	Germany
Languages	Silent German intertitles

Cast

• Rudolf Klein-Rogge as Simpat Karamanian, Arut Akkunian, ein deutscher Professor, ein asiatischer Hausierer und Dr. Papamarkos
• Erich Kaiser-Titz as Polizeihauptmann von Budapest
• Fritz Alberti as Justizminister
• Charles Lincoln as Geza Farkacz
• Wera Engels as Irene Wendtland
• Frau Szlikay as Frau Generalin von Dingolstaedt
• Trude Hesterberg as Meta Pohlmann
• Mary Kid as Ida Schulz
• Wilhelm Diegelmann as Vater Schulz
• Sophie Pagay as Mutter Schulz
• Paul Rehkopf as Sylviani
• Mira Hildebrand as Margarete
• Kurt Gerron as Direktor des Purpur-Paradieses
• Maria Forescu as Eine menschenfreundliche Frau
• Mia Pankau as Aranka von Erdödyi

Bibliography

• Robertson, James Crighton (1993). The Hidden Cinema: British Film Censorship in Action, 1913–1975. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-09034-6.

External links

• White Slave Traffic at IMDb