Remember an hour ago when everything was shadow puppets and not an absolute mindfuck???
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Our leading men are Austrian-German actors Fritz Kortner ( husband) and Alexander Granach (shadow player). #Horror #SilentFilm fans will recognize Granach as Renfield in “Nosferatu” & Kortner as the bad guy in “Orlac's Hände”
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Our leading lady is Polish-German multi-hyphenate actress Ruth Weyher (she had also studied painting and opera) who made about 60 films during her 10yr film career that ended after only appearing in 2 early Talkies.
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Even with 0 intertitles, You can instantly tell that something is very off about this whole dinner party
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Now our feature presentation:“Schatten:Eine Nächtliche Halluzination” AKA “Shadows:A Nocturnal Hallucination” AKA “Warning Shadows” (1923) (youtu.be/ki3GrUkL26g?...) a German expressionist #horror #SilentFilm directed & by German-American filmmaker Arthur Robison
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