A wealthy man invites the local wealthy bachelors over for a puppet show about men who covet another man's wife. The puppeteer is actually a witch and gives the men nightmares about what could happen if they date the lady of the house.
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Title: Warning Shadows (1923)
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| Alexander Granach | ... | Shadowplayer | |
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Max Gülstorff | ... | 2. Kavalier |
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Lilli Herder | ... | Dienstmaedchen |
| Rudolf Klein-Rogge | |||
| Fritz Kortner | ... | The count | |
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Karl Platen | ... | 2. Diener |
| Fritz Rasp | ... | Diener | |
| Eugen Rex | ... | A servant | |
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Ferdinand von Alten | ... | 3. Kavalier |
| Gustav von Wangenheim | ... | Her lover | |
| Ruth Weyher | ... | His wife | |
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During a dinner, given by a wealthy baron and his wive, attended by four of her suitors in a 19th century German manor, a shadow-player rescues the marriage by giving all the guests a vision what might happen tonight if the baron stays jealous and the suitors do not reduce their advances towards his beautiful wife. Or was it a vision? Written by Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>
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expressionism | looking at oneself in a mirror | silent film | silent movie | monster movie |Certificate:
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When the ShadowPlayer asks the servant (Fritz Rasp) to get the sheet for his shadow show, he pulls off the middle button on the left side of his vest. For the remainder of the movie, the button is back on. See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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29 November 2016 (Germany) See more »Also Known As:
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For further reading I recommend an excellent article on the film in the film magazine 'Traffic' (nb. 33) by the German movie aficionado Enno Patalas. Patalas was also the driving force behind a complete restoration of the film at the Munich Filmmuseum - surprisingly there are some (hand- )colored sections in the original version. The shadow theater puppets shown in the movie were created by the German expressionist artist Ernst Moritz Engert, who was well connected to the early expressionist art- and literature-scene in Berlin and Munich. I adore the movie for exploring the deep aesthetic relations between the art of the shadow play and movie as an art itself - from my point of view the earliest and most reflected approach to provide a genuine philosophical statement on film.