Historias tenebrosas (1919)
Un clásico del cine mudo considerado el primer largometraje de terror. Después de que la vieja tienda de libros cierra, retratos de la prostituta, la Muerte y el Diablo cobran vida y se divierten leyendo cuentos sobre sí mismos, por supuesto, en diversas formas y épocas. Cuatro de las historias pertenecen la literatura de terror (uno de Poe, uno de Stevenson), y la última es una comedia que implica a falsas obsesiones. (FA)
Directora: Richard Oswald
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Anita Berber as Die Dirne / Various Other Roles |
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Conrad Veidt as Der Tod / Various Other Roles |
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Reinhold Schünzel as Der Teufel / Various Other Roles |
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Hugo Döblin as |
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Paul Morgan as |
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Georg John as |
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W. Arnoldi as |
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Bernhard Goetzke as A Friend at Table Seance |
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Richard Oswald as |
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Hans Heinrich von Twardowski as Restaurant Waiter |
| Production | Richard Oswald | Producer |
| Directing | Richard Oswald | Director |
| Camera | Carl Hoffmann | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Edgar Allan Poe | Short Story |
| Writing | Robert Louis Stevenson | Short Story |
| Writing | Robert Liebmann | Story |
| Art | Julius Hahlo | Set Decoration |
| Writing | Richard Oswald | Story |
| Writing | Anselma Heine | Story |