Schatten – Eine nächtliche Halluzination

Schatten - Eine nächtliche Halluzination
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 dates	1923 (1923)
Running time	90 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	Silent film German intertitles

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.

Plot

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?

Cast

• 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

See also

• List of films made in Weimar Germany

Literary significance

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.

References

• Eisner, Lotte H. (1981) [1965]. L'Écran Démoniaque (in French) (2nd edition ed.). Paris. 

External links

• Schatten - Eine nächtliche Halluzination at the Internet Movie Database
• Schatten - Eine nächtliche Halluzination at AllMovie
• Page of the editor Kino, who released a restored version of the film on DVD in 2006
• Schatten – Eine nächtliche Halluzination (1923) - Original full version on YouTube