Laws of Love: Innocently Outlawed!

A documentary by Magnus Hirschfeld, which contains a shortened version of Different From the Others (1919).

Cast

Conrad Veidt

Reinhold Schünzel

Fritz Schulz

Leo Connard

Magnus Hirschfeld

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