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Voidsville Follies

Works by Gustav von Wangenheim (2)

Kohlhiesel's Daughters (Kohlhiesels Töchter)

Ernst Lubitsch (director/writer)
Theodor Sparkuhl (cinematographer)
Hanns Kräly (writer)
Henny Porten (lead)
Emil Jannings (lead)
Gustav von Wangenheim (lead)
Jakob Tiedtke (lead)
Messter (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Mar 1920
Minutes: 60

Lightweight but amusing tale of an unintentional taming of the shrew.

Featured elements:

: abuse; alienation; bimbo; comedy; dance-polka; dark comedy; family; forbidden love; infidelity; metatheatre; patriarchy; sexuality; shrew; slapstick; treachery

Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror (Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens)

F.W. Murnau (director)
Fritz Arno Wagner (cinematographer)
Henrik Galeen (writer)
Bram Stoker (author)
Max Schreck (lead)
Gustav von Wangenheim (lead)
Alexander Granach (lead)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Feb 1922
Minutes: 92

Classic allegory of an arrogant wage slave, who sticks his big-butt out to chase Big Bucks, but ends up not getting diddly-squat, cuz his boss gets tossed in the loony bin. Instead big-butt gets the lifeblood sucked from his soul, and brings the plague to his own hometown. What does he have to show for his troubles? Only two...lousy...mosquito bites.

“Beware that his shadow does not engulf you like a daemonic nightmare.”

Featured elements:

: chase; death scene; forsaken; helpless heroine; humanoids; master-disciple; melodrama; metakill science; mind control; narration; romance; state of emergency; wage slavery

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