Schatten - Eine nächtliche Halluzination | |
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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
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Running time
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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.
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?
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.