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Release date 1923 (1923) | 7/10 Initial release 16 October 1923 (Germany) Music director Ernst Riege | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Produced by Enrico DieckmannWilly Seibold Written by Arthur RobisonRudolf Schneider Starring Alexander GranachMax Gülstorff Screenplay Arthur Robison, Rudolf Schneider Producers Enrico Dieckmann, Willy Seibold Cast Similar German Expressionism movies, Movies about jealousy, Silent movies |
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.
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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?
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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.
