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Arthur Robison's Expressionist Thriller - Warning Shadows
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Title: Warning Shadows

Release Date: 16 Oct 1923

Runtime: 1h 30m

Genre: Thriller, Fantasy, Drama, Horror

Director: Pan Film

Production Companies: Pan Film

Overview: During a dinner given by a wealthy baron and his wife, attended by four of her suitors in a 19th century German manor, a shadow-player rescues the marriage by giving all the guests a vision what might happen tonight 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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Ratings

Average Vote: 6.5 (34 votes)

Cast

  • Shadowplayer: Alexander Granach
  • The Count: Fritz Kortner
  • His Wife: Ruth Weyher
  • Her Lover: Gustav von Wangenheim
  • A Servant: Eugen Rex
  • The Maid: Lilli Herder
  • Diener: Fritz Rasp
  • 2. Diener: Karl Platen
  • 2. Kavalier: Max Gülstorff
  • 3. Kavalier: Ferdinand von Alten
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