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Uniform Title Schatten [videorecording]. English
Title Warning shadows : a nocturnal hallucination / Cineteca del Comune di Bologna, Cinémathèque Française, and the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation present ; directed by Arthur Robison
Published [United States] : Kino on Video, [2006]
©2006

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 MELB  791.4372 Rob/Sch  AVAILABLE
Description 1 videodisc (DVD) (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Summary Expressionist film in which a count is jealous of the attentions his wife pays to "the lover" and various other suitors. The situation comes to a head when a showman/mesmerist puts on a "shadow play" for them all, in which their emotion and passions are mirrored
Notes Originally produced as a silent motion picture in 1923
"Kino on Video, German silents."--Cover
"This version of Warning Shadows (Schatten) is based on a comparison of all existing copies, two main sources in particular: An original print, tinted and with French intertitles, from the Cinémathèque Française, and a dupe negative of an American theatrical version from the Museum of Modern Art."
Credits Edited by Rudolf Schneider and Arthur Robison; music composed and performed by Donald Sosin; concept and design, Albin Grau
Cast Fritz Kortner, Ruth Weyher, Gustav von Wangenheim, Alexander Granach, Fritz Rasp, Ferdinand von Alten, Max Gutstorff
Notes DVD format ; NTSC
Silent film with English intertitles translated from German, orchestral soundtrack
Subject Foreign films.
Jealousy -- Drama.
Adultery -- Drama.
Motion pictures, German.
Genre/Form Feature films.
Silent films.
Video recordings.
Drama.
Author Robison, Arthur, 1888-1935.
Schneider, Rudolf, 1908-1957.
Grau, Albin, 1894-1942.
Kortner, Fritz.
Weyher, Ruth, 1901-1983.
Wangenheim, Gustav von, 1895-1975.
Cineteca comunale (Bologna, Italy)
Cinémathèque française.
Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung.