The Rat (1918 film)

The Rat
Directed by	Joe May Harry Piel
Written by	Richard Hutter Harry Piel Philipp Silber
Produced by	Joe May
Starring	Heinrich Schroth Olga Engl Käthe Haack
Cinematography	Max Lutze
Production company	May-Film
Distributed by	UFA
Release date	11 October 1918 (1918-10-11)
Country	Germany
Languages	Silent German intertitles

The Rat (German: Die Ratte) is a 1918 German silent crime film directed by Harry Piel and Joe May and starring Heinrich Schroth, Olga Engl and Käthe Haack.^[1] It was part of the series of Joe Deebs detective films.

It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin.

• Heinrich Schroth as Joe Deebs, Detektiv
• Olga Engl as Fürstin Klankenstein
• Stefan Vacano as Baron Bassano
• Lina Paulsen as Gräfin Dürfeld
• Mechthildis Thein as Baronin Orlowska
• Leo Burg as Grauhofer
• Hermann Picha as Vinzenz Krüger, Domtürmer
• Werner Albes as Dr. Hans Krüger
• Käthe Haack as Die Ratte

• Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.

• The Rat at IMDb