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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 566

Unheimliche Geschichten

191995 minGermany

Video edition: YouTube
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: German.
This copy runs: 97:42
Subtitles: English

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Synopsis

At midnight, three figures step out of paintings in a closed bookshop and open a collection of sinister stories. A disappearance, a vengeful hand, a concealed murder and a deadly card game turn ordinary encounters into threats. The same performers return in different roles as the tales move between horror and dark comedy.

Cast

Conrad Veidt

Death

Reinhold Schünzel

the Devil

Anita Berber

Harlot

Hugo Döblin

DirectorsRichard Oswald

Inspirations

Richard Oswald's anthology draws on writers including Edgar Allan Poe and Robert Louis Stevenson, alongside an original story of his own. Conrad Veidt, Anita Berber and Reinhold Schünzel play the framing figures and repeatedly change identities within the five episodes.

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Conrad Veidt — MGM-photo by Clarence Bull.; eBay front back · Public domain

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