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Voidsville Follies

Works by Carl Mayer (2)

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Robert Wiene (director)
Willy Hameister (cinematographer)
Carl Mayer (writer)
Hans Janowitz (writer)
Werner Krauss (lead)
Conrad Veidt (lead)
Friedrich Feher (lead)
Lil Dagover (lead)
Hans Heinrich von Twardowski (lead)
Decla (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Feb 1920
Minutes: 72

“Mother Of All Noir”? “The Big Source”? Whatever you call it, no denying that this is like so Noirsville. Music for this 1996 restoration is by Timothy Brock.

Featured elements:

: abstraction; alter ego; carnival; chase; crime; detective; flashback; manipulator; mind control; noir; psycho; rescue; unreliable narrator

Shattered (Scherben)

Lupu Pick (cameo/director/writer)
Carl Mayer (writer)
Friedrich Weinmann (cinematographer)
Werner Krauss (lead)
Edith Posca (lead)
Hermine Straßmann-Witt (lead)
Paul Otto (lead)

Language: Silent, German titles, English and French subtitles, released in May 1921
Minutes: 61

Though neither entertaining nor enlightening, still a somewhat interesting experiment in minimalist melodrama.

Featured elements:

: agent of discontent; alienation; family; forsaken; homme fatale; melodrama; neglected spouse; revenge; train

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