09 May 2025
the birth of the journey before death.
The journey before the inevitable, the clock starts ticking, life begins and ends.
Warning Shadows
Arthur Robison's Expressionist Thriller
During a dinner given by a wealthy baron and his wife, attended by four of her suitors in a 19th century German manor, a shadow-player rescues the marriage by giving all the guests a vision what might happen tonight if the baron stays jealous and the suitors do not reduce their advances towards his beautiful wife. Or was it a vision?
Top Billed Cast
Alexander Granach Shadowplayer
Fritz Kortner The Count
Ruth Weyher His Wife
Gustav von Wangenheim Her Lover
Eugen Rex A Servant
Lilli Herder The Maid
Fritz Rasp Diener
Karl Platen 2. Diener
Max Gülstorff 2. Kavalier
Ferdinand von Alten 3. Kavalier
Rudolf Klein-Rogge Heinrich Gotho
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