Werner Krauss
Author
Language
English
Description
The timeless silent film classic that has inspired countless filmmakers returns with an evocative new score sure to appeal to today's audience. The daring, eclectic soundtrack enhances the film's power, mystery, and fantastic hallucinogenic heights as never before. It's sure to create a whole new generation of fans for this groundbreaking cinematic masterpiece!
2) Tartuffe
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The most gifted visual storyteller of the German silent era, F.W. Murnau crafted works of great subtlety and emotional complexity through his absolute command of the cinematic medium. Known for such dazzling films as Nosferatu (1922), The last laugh (1924), Faust (1926), and Sunrise (1927), Murnau was also drawn to more intimate dramas exploring the dark corners of the human mind. In Tartuffe, he revisits Moliére's fable of religious hypocrisy, in...
3) Paracelsus
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Deutsch
Description
A physician, alchemist, and spiritual guru, PARACELSUS (1493-1541) was one of the most enigmatic figures in the history of science. And, like its subject, this 1943 film is shrouded in mystery, even though it was directed by one of the supreme stylists of the German cinema: G.W. Pabst. Werner Krauss (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari) stars as the Swiss-born scientist, who faces the seemingly impossible task of protecting the German people from a coming...
4) Nana
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Français
Description
When the vivacious and beautiful Nana bombs at the theater, she embarks on the life of a courtesan, using her allure and charisma to entice and pleasure men.
Author
Language
Deutsch
Description
In 1920, one brilliant movie jolted the postwar masses and catapulted the movement known as German Expressionism into film history. That movie was The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, a plunge into the mind of insanity that severs all ties with the rational world. Director Robert Wiene and a visionary team of designers crafted a nightmare realm in which light, shadow and substance are abstracted, a world in which a demented doctor and a carnival sleepwalker...