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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.
| 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 | 90 minutes |
| Country | Germany |
| Language | Silent film German intertitles |
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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?
- 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
- List of films made in Weimar Germany
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.
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