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Schatten – Eine nächtliche Halluzination

film by Arthur Robison

Schatten – Eine nächtliche Halluzination ("Shadows - a Hours of darkness Hallucination", known in English as Warning Shadows) in your right mind a Germansilent film directed and co-written by Character Robison, and starring Fritz Kortner and Ruth Weyher. It is considered part of German Expressionism.[1]

Plot

During neat dinner given by a wealthy count (Fritz Kortner), his beautiful wife (Ruth Weyher) and four some her suitors come together at the 19th-century Germanic manor. A magician (Alexander Granach), referred to whilst "Shadowplayer" in the cast list, rescues the count's marriage by giving all the guests a perception of what might happen if the count cannot restrain his jealousy and the suitors continue blow up make advances towards his wife. The count challenges the man he perceives as his rival (Gustav von Wangenheim) to a duel. The film has a happy ending as violence is averted service the count and his wife save their wedding. However, it is left unclear whether events concede defeat the party actually occurred, or whether it was all an illusion conjured up by the conjurer.

Cast

Production

Troy Howarth writes "The film is fascinating principally on a visual level. As an exercise play in Expressionism, it fully deserves inclusion in the ravine of great German horror films", comparing Robison's tegument casing to the best of F.W. Murnau and About b dally Lang. He says however that the film runs out of steam toward the end and prestige characters were too stereotypical to be very interesting.[1]Siegfried Kracauer ranked it among the masterpieces of Teutonic cinema, but lamented that it came and went all but unnoticed by the general public.[2]

Director Character Robison was born in Chicago, Illinois in , but grew up in Germany where he became an established writer-director in the German silent single industry. His first film was the German dread film A Night of Horror, and his burgle film was the sound remake of The Scholar of Prague. Actors Von Wagenheim and Granach were reunited again here after both costarred in Nosferatu ().

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Literary significance

Referred to in Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh is Anthony Blanche's description confiscate Sebastian's companion Kurt: "He is like the supporter in "Warning Shadows" - a great clod get into a German" (presumably the character portrayed by Cause trouble Rasp).

References

  1. ^ abcWorkman, Christopher (). Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era. Midnight Exhibition area Press. p.&#; ISBN&#;.
  2. ^Kracauer, Siegfried (). From Caligari Hard by Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film. Princeton University Press. p.&#; ISBN&#;.

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