A nude couple pose in an art studio on a square rug, while the camera does a circular traveling around them; the woman has her right knee on the floor and her right arm raised in front of her face, holding the man's thighs with her right, while the man is bent forward, as if looking in the distance.
Klara and her father have been alone since her mother died. Her close friend Hans leaves for the military, and on returning as a fine young man, rushes to see Klara. As their families work to keep them apart, their love grows stronger and stronger.
A love doctor successfully produces men on order for needy women, until his system for delivering them – through the mail as puppets in canisters - goes awry.
a silent movie by Robert Wiene
First feature film produced by the German pioneer Oskar Messter
An ambitious wife spends all of her husband's hard-earned money and then commits suicide out of remorse.
a silent movie by Rober Wiene
Alexander Girardi sings the cabbage song
A silent musical number.
In the image of Salomé, the excluded other - nature, sexuality, the feminine - returns as an attraction and a threat. In a mixture of striptease and opera, Adorée Villany in front of the camera crosses the boundaries of both genres.
Sigmund Liban sings forty second from the prologue to PAGLIACCI in this early sound film.
Only 3 minutes of this Oskar Messter short film survive.
