Cyanide
Cyanide Hans Tintner’s film Cyanide is very much influenced by the intellectual progressiveness of the Weimar Republic and New Objectivity. It is based on Friedrich Wolf’s play of the same name. Wolf denounces the so-called Abortion Paragraph (§ 218) and puts it up for discussion. He was arrested in 1931 for having offended against § 218 and Tintner’s film was banned. At the time of the Economic Cris…
Film 89 min
1930
Germany

Topic: Abortion