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(0)Conrad Veidt
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Veidt was a big star in German silent movies after his role as Cesare, the somnambulist in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Like many other artists in Nazi Germany, he fled in 1933. He became a star in British films as well, but when Germany attacked London, he emigrated to the United States, where, for the most part, he wound up playing Nazis—a fate that befell many German refugee actors. Veidt died of a heart attack on a golf course in Hollywood in...
2) Orlacs Hände
Publisher
NYX Channel
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A world-famous pianist loses both hands in an accident. When new hands are grafted on, he doesn't know they once belonged to a murderer.
3) Casablanca
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
In World War II Morocco, seething with European refugees desperate for passage to neutral Lisbon, only a world-weary and bitter nightclub owner can help his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.
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!
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...