Schatten – Eine nächtliche Halluzination

Schatten - Eine nächtliche Halluzination
Directed by	Arthur Robison
Produced by	Enrico Dieckmann; Willy Seibold
Written by	Arthur Robison; Rudolf Schneider
Starring	Alexander Granach; Max Gülstorff
Cinematography	Fritz Arno Wagner
Release date	1923;
Running time	90 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	Silent film; German intertitles

Schatten – Eine nächtliche Halluzination ("Shadows - a Nocturnal Hallucination", also known in English as Warning Shadows) is a 1923 German silent film directed by Arthur Robison. It is considered part of German Expressionism.

Plot

During a dinner given by a wealthy baron and his wife, four of her suitors attend the 19th century German manor. A shadow-player rescues the marriage by giving all the guests a vision of what might happen if the baron stays jealous and the suitors do not reduce their advances towards his beautiful wife. Or was it a vision?

Cast

Alexander Granach as Shadowplayer
Fritz Kortner as The count
Ruth Weyher as His wife
Gustav von Wangenheim as Her lover
Eugen Rex as A servant
Lilli Herder as Dienstmaedchen
Fritz Rasp as Diener
Karl Platen as 2. Diener
Max Gülstorff as 2. Kavalier
Ferdinand von Alten as 3. Kavalier
Rudolf Klein-Rogge

Literary significance

Referred to in Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh. Anthony Blanche's description of Sebastian's companion Kurt: "He is like the footman in Warning Shadows - a great clod of a German..." This is presumably the character portrayed by Fritz Rasp.

References

Eisner, Lotte H. (1981) [1965]. L'Écran Démoniaque (in French) (2nd ed.). Paris.

External links

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