Masks (1920)

Movie
Original title	Masks
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1920
length	106 minutes
Rod
Director	William Wauer
script	Else Bassermann (as Hans Hennings)
production	Jules Greenbaum
camera	Mutz Greenbaum
occupation
Albert Bassermann : husband, Pierrot and monk Else Bassermann Rolf Prasch Rose Veldtkirch Matylda St. Clair Albert Paul Ms. Storm Kurt Keller-Nebri

Masks is a three-part episode film (1. Mister Rex. - 2. Varieté. - 3. A Trappist monastery).

action

In this film Albert Bassermann plays a betrayed husband, an aging Pierrot and a tempted monk.

background

Directed by William Wauer . Jules Greenbaum was the producer for Greenbaum-Film GmbH (Berlin). The black and white silent film is 1947 meters long, approx. 106 minutes, in five acts in 35 mm format and an aspect ratio of 1: 1.33.

The backdrops are expressionistic, they were designed by some artists who were already working on the film Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari had contributed. The film was checked by the censors on August 2, 1920 (B.00192) and a youth ban was imposed. The German premiere was on September 10, 1920 in Berlin in the Motivhaus on Hardenbergstrasse .

Web links

• Masks at filmportal.de
• Masks in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Film length calculator , frame rate : 16 2/3