# Children of No Importance > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Children_of_No_Importance > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Children_of_No_Importance.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_No_Importance > Source revision: 1341626941 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) 1926 film Children of No Importance Theatrical film poster German Die Unehelichen Directed by Gerhard Lamprecht Written by Luise Heilborn-Körbitz Gerhard Lamprecht Produced by Gerhard Lamprecht Starring Bernhard Goetzke Margarete Kupfer Elsa Wagner Jaro Fürth Cinematography Karl Hasselmann Music by Willy Schmidt-Gentner Production company Gerhard Lamprecht Filmproduktion Distributed by National Film Release date 6 September 1926 (1926-09-06) Running time 70 minutes Country Germany Languages Silent German intertitles ***Children of No Importance*** or ***The Illegitimate*** ([German](/source/German_language): ***Die Unehelichen***) is a 1926 German [silent](/source/Silent_film) [drama film](/source/Drama_(film_and_television)) directed by [Gerhard Lamprecht](/source/Gerhard_Lamprecht) and starring [Bernhard Goetzke](/source/Bernhard_Goetzke), [Margarete Kupfer](/source/Margarete_Kupfer) and [Elsa Wagner](/source/Elsa_Wagner). It was part of the series of Enlightenment films produced in [Weimar Germany](/source/Weimar_Germany), examining social issues such as [illegitimate children](/source/Illegitimate_children).[1] ## Plot A socially aware melodrama delves into the lives of three underprivileged children, each born out of wedlock, residing with foster parents who fail to provide adequate care. The narrative explores the destinies that await these children amidst their challenging circumstances. ## Cast - [Bernhard Goetzke](/source/Bernhard_Goetzke) - [Margarete Kupfer](/source/Margarete_Kupfer) - [Elsa Wagner](/source/Elsa_Wagner) - [Jaro Fürth](/source/Jaro_F%C3%BCrth) - Ralph Ludwig - Fee Wachsmuth - Margot Misch - Fred Grosser - [Hermine Sterler](/source/Hermine_Sterler) - [Max Maximilian](/source/Max_Maximilian) - [Eduard Rothauser](/source/Eduard_Rothauser) - Lili Schoenborn-Anspach - [Paul Bildt](/source/Paul_Bildt) - [Käthe Haack](/source/K%C3%A4the_Haack) - [Hugo Flink](/source/Hugo_Flink) - [Ernst Behmer](/source/Ernst_Behmer) - [Karl Platen](/source/Karl_Platen) - [Trude Lehmann](/source/Trude_Lehmann) ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Murray, Bruce Arthur. *Film and the German Left in the Weimar Republic: From Caligari to Kuhle Wampe*. [University of Texas Press](/source/University_of_Texas_Press), 1990. p. 82. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0292724659](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0292724659). ## External links - [*Children of No Importance*](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017498/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier)) v t e Films directed by Gerhard Lamprecht The Graveyard of the Living (1921) The Buddenbrooks (1923) The House Without Laughter (1923) And Yet Luck Came (1923) The Other Woman (1924) The Hanseatics (1925) Slums of Berlin (1925) Children of No Importance (1926) People to Each Other (1926) Sister Veronika (1927) The Catwalk (1927) Under the Lantern (1928) The Old Fritz (1928) The Man with the Frog (1929) Different Morals (1931) Between Night and Dawn (1931) Emil and the Detectives (1931) The Black Hussar (1932) Spies at Work (1933) What Men Know (1933) Just Once a Great Lady (1934) A Day Will Come (1934) Princess Turandot (1934) Turandot, Princess of China (1935) The Higher Command (1935) One Too Many on Board (1935) A Strange Guest (1936) Madame Bovary (1937) The Yellow Flag (1937) The Gambler (1938) Woman in the River (1939) The Girl at the Reception (1940) Clarissa (1941) Diesel (1942) The Noltenius Brothers (1945) Somewhere in Berlin (1946) Quartet of Five (1949) Madonna in Chains (1949) The Angel with the Flaming Sword (1954) Sergeant Borck (1955) This article related to a German silent drama film of the 1920s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information. - [v](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:1920s-Germany-silent-drama-film-stub) - [t](/source/Template_talk%3A1920s-Germany-silent-drama-film-stub) - [e](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:1920s-Germany-silent-drama-film-stub) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Children of No Importance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_No_Importance) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_No_Importance?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.